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Pyramiden, Spitsbergen | I'm Not Yet Dead
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I'm Not Yet Dead. Svalbard Flora and Fauna. Svalbard Glaciers →. September 18, 2013. One day, we stopped in the nearly abandoned Russian mining town of Pyramiden. Named after pyramid-shaped mountains nearby, the town used to bustle with more than 1000 permanent residents. But it was abandoned in 1998, a few years after a terrible plane crash in Longyearbyen killed 141 on their way to the settlement. I was very curious to meet some of the residents of the town; people I imagined to be hardy mountain men w...