Vesa-Pekka Herva is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the European High North.Aki Hakonen, PhD, is an archaeologist and a fledgling science writer. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu.Roger Norum is Academy Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oulu. His research across the Arctic and South/Southeast Asia focuses on mobility, infrastructure, and sociality in human-environment relations.Oula Seitsonen, Sakarin-Pentin Ilarin Oula, PhD, is Academy Fellow at the University of Oulu. Geographer and archaeologist by training, his research ranges from Stone Age East Africa to Arctic conflict heritage.Markus Fjellström is a postdoctoral researcher in Archaeology at Lund University where he studies Late Paleolithic and Early Mesolithic reindeer mobility in southern Scandinavia using stable isotope and aDNA analysis.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Weirding and Fielding the World: Hows and Whys.- Chapter 3. The “Glacier” .- Chapter 4. Mountain Beings.- Chapter 5. At the Basecamp.- Chapter 6. The Fjell in the Cloud.- Chapter 7. Gear Shift: Hiking and Being in the North.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Monstrous Worlds.

Vesa-Pekka Herva is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the European High North.Aki Hakonen, PhD, is an archaeologist and a fledgling science writer. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu.Roger Norum is Academy Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oulu. His research across the Arctic and South/Southeast Asia focuses on mobility, infrastructure, and sociality in human-environment relations.Oula Seitsonen, Sakarin-Pentin Ilarin Oula, PhD, is Academy Fellow at the University of Oulu. Geographer and archaeologist by training, his research ranges from Stone Age East Africa to Arctic conflict heritage.Markus Fjellström is a postdoctoral researcher in Archaeology at Lund University where he studies Late Paleolithic and Early Mesolithic reindeer mobility in southern Scandinavia using stable isotope and aDNA analysis.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Weirding and Fielding the World: Hows and Whys.- Chapter 3. The “Glacier” .- Chapter 4. Mountain Beings.- Chapter 5. At the Basecamp.- Chapter 6. The Fjell in the Cloud.- Chapter 7. Gear Shift: Hiking and Being in the North.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Monstrous Worlds.

Vesa-Pekka Herva is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the European High North.Aki Hakonen, PhD, is an archaeologist and a fledgling science writer. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu.Roger Norum is Academy Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oulu. His research across the Arctic and South/Southeast Asia focuses on mobility, infrastructure, and sociality in human-environment relations.Oula Seitsonen, Sakarin-Pentin Ilarin Oula, PhD, is Academy Fellow at the University of Oulu. Geographer and archaeologist by training, his research ranges from Stone Age East Africa to Arctic conflict heritage.Markus Fjellström is a postdoctoral researcher in Archaeology at Lund University where he studies Late Paleolithic and Early Mesolithic reindeer mobility in southern Scandinavia using stable isotope and aDNA analysis.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Weirding and Fielding the World: Hows and Whys.- Chapter 3. The “Glacier” .- Chapter 4. Mountain Beings.- Chapter 5. At the Basecamp.- Chapter 6. The Fjell in the Cloud.- Chapter 7. Gear Shift: Hiking and Being in the North.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Monstrous Worlds.