Just add SALT: Norways new Arctic arts and music festival
At a year-long arts festival in northern Norway, Will Coldwell finds that its nature that remains the headline act See more stunning pictures of the festivalIt has been some hours since sunset on the...
View ArticleArt in the Arctic: SALT festival, Norway in pictures
SALT festival is a unique arts festival that takes place on the beach of a small island in the Arctic Circle. These photographs reflect the remoteness of the site, the creativity that is on display and...
View ArticleUncovering the secrets of John Franklins doomed voyage
Ryan Harris had been searching for the wreck of the lost ship of John Franklin for six years. Now, having finally located it, he tells Robin McKie what the find may reveal about the doomed expedition...
View ArticlePolar bears in Alaska – in pictures
Photographer Steven Kazlowski spends four to six months a year capturing the real life of the region’s polar bears at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in North Slope, AlaskaContinue reading...
View ArticleIce hotel opens in Swedish Lapland – in pictures
The 25th Icehotel has just opened for the 2014/15 season in the village of Jukkasjärvi, Swedish Lapland. Carved from 1,600 tonnes of snow and ice, the hotel features 16 artist-designed suites, a bar...
View ArticleMore to Finland than the northern lights
You may get lucky with the aurora, but Finnish Lapland also offers snowshoe hiking, glass-domed igloos – and even a Christmas wish with Santa In Finland, fantasy can be more reliable than reality....
View ArticleTravel tips: sun rise in Svalbard, and deals of the week
See the sun’s first appearance in six months on an archipelago near the North Pole, plus free Landmark Trust visits and a new family-friendly hotel in SardiniaWhy go?The end of winter is always a cause...
View ArticleBoundless review – Kathleen Winter’s original take on the travel memoir
The Canadian novelist explores an epic inner and outer voyage through the Northwest PassageAfter the success of her 2010 novel about an intersex child, Annabel, the Canadian author Kathleen Winter has...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: Snowburn in the frozen fjord
The British army officer and Arctic explorer Frederick Spencer Chapman was in Greenland on 28 March 1933. “Face very sore today. I always suffer more from sun and snowburn than from frostbite. Glorious...
View ArticleBranson offers £100,000 ticket to the heart of a space spectacle
Flights launched in Arctic will be first to take people inside the northern lightsIt looks like a cut-price version of the set of a Bond movie. Blocky, 60s-style white consoles face a large...
View ArticleSweden's highest ski lodge
Staying overnight in a ski lodge inside the Arctic Circle allows access to an empty, off-piste paradise most skiers can only dream ofIt's difficult to embrace the quiet beauty of a place when you're...
View ArticleGetting there: Arctic Sweden
Discover the World (01737 218800) offers a seven-night Saab Lapland Explorer package from £1,640, based on two sharing, including return flights from London to Kiruna, two nights' accommodation at the...
View ArticleThe rich list: holiday like a billionaire, for less
If you're spending it like Beckham, private islands, penthouses and outer space are within reach. Here's how to take the holidays of the rich and famous, on a budgetIt could be you. Your numbers might...
View ArticleA hotel like no other in Arctic Norway
A trek to a ship-hotel frozen into the ice in the middle of the Arctic wastes makes for the trip of a lifetime – as long you can keep your feet warmIt's an idea so simple, so beautiful, that you can't...
View ArticleBoundless by Kathleen Winter review – in the footsteps of John Franklin
A journey to the Northwest Passage inspires banal meditations on … whatever comes to mindOver the last 20 years nature writing has enjoyed a huge resurgence, taking over where travel writing left off....
View ArticleReaders' tips: Lapland and the Arctic Circle
There's much more to Lapland and the Arctic Circle than Santa. Been there readers share their top tips, from sea skiing in Canada to watching the northern lights from your bed in Finland• Add a tip for...
View ArticleFresh from the freezer: gourmet food in Greenland
Could Greenland, with its old reliance on whale and seal, become a gourmet destination? Its inventive new chefs think so, but will a frozen Tim Moore agree?Despite the best efforts of the Vikings, who...
View ArticleChasing Ice: glacial melting in the Arctic - in pictures
Chasing Ice, a documentary by the producers of Academy award-winning The Cove, tells the story of James Balog's mission to capture visual evidence of the effect of climate change on our planet. Since...
View ArticleArctic turn: following the route of the Northwest Passage
Finding a 'Northwest Passage' through Canada's icy seas was once the ultimate challenge for explorers. Kari Herbert sails the thrilling route on a new 11-day 'cruise'"Remember, this is an expedition,...
View ArticleOn the trail of sea urchins in the Arctic Circle
Arctic diver Roddie Sloan was about to abandon his beloved urchins to study engineering, but then he got a call that would change his life..."Our urchin diver is a Scotsman who came to Norway for the...
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