The Arctic is one of our planet’s most astonishing regions. There’s the vastness of the icy sea, the beautifully rugged landscapes that rise from the water and endless boreal forests inhabited by wolves and bears. The midnight sun creates unforgettable hiking experiences during the warmer months, while winter brings bone-juddering temperatures and coats the exhibitionist mountain landscapes in white.
And on cold, clear nights, the cosmos reaches down and puts on a spectacular light show that's out-of-this-world: the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis. The result of the Sun’s solar wind accelerating along the North Pole’s magnetic field lines and colliding with gas particles in the upper atmosphere, nothing on Earth is quite as ethereally beautiful. With their ghostly curtains of green, red and violet, the aurorae remind us at once of the beauty of our planet and our place in the Solar System.
