Northern lights above Saana

We saw the northern lights for the first time at the foot of Saana. We had already been outside for an hour when a faint green arc appeared on the edge of the sky.

At first I took it for a cloud. Then the arc began to move, grew brighter and climbed towards the zenith, and suddenly the whole sky was full of quiet, slowly rippling light.

No photograph is as quiet as that moment.

It was twenty below, but nobody wanted to go inside. We stood with mittens against our faces and watched. The camera battery was the first to die.

A tip: bring something warm to drink and a spare battery. And above all, time.