Speaking to the Polish State News Agency (PAP), Bożek described slow, subdued winter days shaped by routine and persistent drowsiness, occasionally broken by glacier hikes and rare flashes of natural beauty. The polar night, which lasts from late October to mid-February, never allows the sun to rise above the horizon. Even so, Bożek noted that faint glimmers of light often appear at the edges of the sky. After so many weeks without daylight, she said, the moment the sun finally returns brings “genuine joy.”