Unlike the Jersey Shore - where she was brought up - Tromsø's winter lasts up to eight months and, between November and January, it is plunged into almost complete darkness.
Between November and January, Tromsø is plunged into almost complete darkness - the Polar Night.
Ice on a pier in Tromsø, Norway - the temperatures can drop to as low as 5 degrees during Polar Night.
I moved from the Jersey Shore to a city with the world's darkest winters - here's how you thrive when it's bleak Her friends could hardly believe it when Kari Leibowitz told them she was moving to the Arctic.
As a PhD student, she traveled to the northernmost university in the world - Tromsø, Norway - to study how mindset can affect our health.
