PHOTOGRAPH: KENNETH SCHOTH/500PX
Lofoten Islands
When Gabriel Langlands felt that life in England was growing a little stale he set off on his motorbike for the Lofoten Islands of northern Norway above the Arctic Circle. He made it as far as the tip of the archipelago, the island of Røst. Each winter, Arctic cod (skrei) arrive to spawn in the surrounding seas, luring hundreds of fishing boats. It’s a tradition that goes back 5,000 years, the difference being that in 3000 BC the people would row over from the mainland to fish in the deadly winter seas.