Introduction to the story of the Ice Queen

--I would never try because I would succeed--. That is what I thought in my romantic period when I heard the story of the Ice Queen. This is an introduction to that story as told to me when I was about 17 years old.

It used to be a cold place, but since 4 years the town became warmer and warmer. No one had a logical explanation for it, while there used to be snow in winter, now there would hardly fall any rain. Where the climate was mild in summer now the summers were extremely hot. In a place where the people are not used to temperatures above 20, now the inhabbitants never had temperatures below 20, not even in winter. After 4 years without explanation, the major of the town decided to take some action. The extreme change had left his beautiful village in ruins. Some people left, not able to stand the heat, to a near town. The flora just dried up, once known for it's beautiful flowers, now for it's desert.

With help from the government the towns people allowed 10 experts in to investigate the possible cause of this extreme and local climate change. Questionares were handed to all inhabitants, after filling these in all the town's people were interview by the experts. Every vehicle, every building, every remaining animal, remaning plants, really everything was checked by the experts. Nothing out of the ordinary was found. Many things had changed, the drop in inhabitants, less new borns, less innovation, etc. But everything was caused by the change in climate, not the other way around. The most brilliant experts left this little town without an answer. The place 'just had bad luck' was their conclusion. The geniuses returned home, divided into two vehicles.

Sticking close to eachother, since it was not always easy to find your way out of the small towns. Even more tricky was the route passing the mountains, but dissapointed after not finding the problem in the town, maybe this route would make them more wisely? At least they would have no regrets... The first turns on the mountain didn't seem very usefull, same dry land as in the town they left. So warm, dirty, lifeles roads all up to the mountaintop. Arriving there the eyes of our experts opened up!

Looking down to the other side, there was pure snow, ice and white. This was a true Ice Land! How could this be? How can there be extreme dryness in one side and complete winter on another? The scientists had never seen such thing, and in their search for explanations they decided to go further into this Ice Land, this must be the first step to finding a solution...