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Alten Lodge: the adventure base above the Altafjord

Alten Lodge is an Arctic adventure base on a hilltop above the Altafjord, fifteen minutes from Alta airport in Finnmark, Norway. One group takes th...

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The northern lights, honestly: when and where to see them in Norway

Every winter, people fly north with one picture in their head: green light moving over snow. Most of them come home with it. Some do not. The diffe...

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What makes a luxury lodge worth the flight north

Luxury in the Arctic is not marble. It is a warm building in a cold place, with nobody in it but your people. Once you have had a lodge to yourselv...

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Snowmobiling in Finnmark: the far north at full throttle

Finnmark is Norway's biggest and emptiest county, 350 km above the Arctic Circle, and in winter most of it can only be reached one way: on a snowmo...

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Fishing inside the Arctic Circle: ice, fjord and the famous Alta river

Fishing inside the Arctic Circle is not one thing. It is three, and they could hardly be more different: a hole drilled through lake ice in Februar...

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Whales in and around Alta: winter giants in the northern fjords

Every winter, enormous shoals of herring move into the fjords of northern Norway, and the whales follow them in: orcas hunting in family groups, an...

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Panama 4x4: seven days across one extraordinary country

In April 2027 we take seventeen 4x4s and thirty-four extraordinary people across Panama, from the towers of the capital to Pacific surf towns and t...

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