Traveling north of the Arctic Circle in the dead of winter may not be on everyone’s bucket list, but perhaps it should be. Imagine carving the first tracks down a mountain, uninterrupted views ...

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Icebergs and glaciers used to be the greatest threat to ships crossing the North Atlantic Ocean a century ago. Luxury voyages now explicitly head further north in the Arctic Ocean for sightseers to ...

This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago high above the Arctic Circle — isolated and far away. It’s home to a vault that aims to be the ultimate backup ...

Growing up in Spain, Alberto Lozano always found a sense of calm in the kitchen. He was a hyperactive kid, so his mom put him to work mixing cake batter or making meatballs. “The mess and the ...

Timing is everything on Senja, Norway’s second largest – but still relatively untouched – island. Come in winter, and the only light you’ll see is that which reflects off the blankets of snow covering ...