To Svalbard. by Benjamin Wilde

- ‘To Svalbard’ is a solo EP exploring a possible future, in which our planet has been gripped by a new ice age, brought on by the results of climate change. A brave team of determined explorers have taken it upon themselves to scrape together the small amount of resources at their disposal, including a battered old snow-crawler vehicle known amongst the crew as ‘The Beast,’ to carry out a long and arduous expedition.
- Their aim is to travel north to find a place once known as the Svalbard Seed Vault, a science facility that once was a leading botany research laboratory containing copies of all known species of flora. The location was long ago abandoned due to its remote location and increasingly uninhabitable environment - finding it will be an arduous and formidable task.
- The sealed facility holds the frozen remnants of Earth’s biological past, and if they are able to locate it, there is a chance they may be able to bring back the samples and knowledge from generations ago in order to restart the planet’s failing agricultural system. If they are successful, it would turn a page to a new and more hopeful chapter in humanity’s history.

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