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Greenland holidays

December 2023

  • A snowy cabin in Upernavik with light just dawning

    A light in the dark – traditions to brighten winter’s darkness, from Greenland to Antarctica

    There’s joy to be found in the darkest winter months, and people living in cold places use a variety of rituals to celebrate the lack of light – and its eventual return

February 2021

  • Writer Nancy Campbell’s Greenland host, Malik, with his dogsled team

    Travel encounters
    Staying with a hunter showed me Greenland beyond the tourist brochures

    In a new series about memorable encounters, the writer recalls the time she spent with a family whose way of life is threatened by the climate crisis

January 2021

  • Moody sky with sunset over an ice and snow landscape in Finland.

    My voyage through a world of language in just one word: snow

    Missing the wild regions where I have worked, I took a linguistic trip from Asia to the Andes, via Russia and Finland, instead

December 2019

  • Iceberg and frozen fjord, Greenland.

    Arctic adventure: a photography tour of Greenland

    Our readers’ photo competition winner travelled to Greenland with small, specialist tour operator Wild Photography Holidays. His images reflect threatened landscapes and remote communities

February 2017

  • Google Maps is launching Street View imagery collected by Game of Thrones actor and UN Ambassador, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (aka: Jaime Lannister), to raise awareness of climate change. Nikolaj took the Street View Trekker to Greenland, where, just as you’d expect from someone trained on action movies, he walked on ice, jumped on a quad bike, got on a boat and took a helicopter to capture the melting ice sheets on Street View and raise awareness of climate change. He’s the first celebrity to capture Street View imagery.

    Game of Thrones star in Greenland for Google Street View

    GoT’s Jaime Lannister has shown little love for the far north, unlike the man who plays him, Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who has been collecting street view imagery for Google in southern Greenland to highlight the impact of climate change

November 2016

  • The Inuit settlement of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland.

    A great little place I know
    Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, one of the remotest settlements on Earth

    Frozen in for nine months a year and sandwiched between the largest national park and longest fjord system in the world, the setting of this tiny coastal outpost is stunning

January 2016

  • Hiking in Indonesia

    10 of the best long-haul adventure holidays

    Get out of your comfort zone with these trips to less-visited parts of the world, from driving down Jordan’s desert highway to tackling high peaks in Mongolia

August 2015

  • Iceberg, Disko Bay

    Journey through the Northwest Passage – in pictures

    The best shots from Robin McKie’s journey through the north-west passage

September 2013

  • Ice breaker. Kari Herbert's trip across the Northwest Passage.

    Arctic 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'

May 2013

  • On location: film-themed holidays

  • Greenland film

    Greenland: Village at the End of the World – exclusive clip

November 2012

  • Chasing Ice: clip two - video

    Chasing Ice in the Arctic - video

    Chasing Ice, the award winning film of one man's mission to provide undeniable evidence of climate change in the Arctic, premieres in the UK on 3 December

  • Chasing Ice film still

    Chasing 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

  • Tim Moore on a gourmet trip to Greenland

    Fresh 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?

February 2012

  • letter from greenland

    Letter from
    Letter from Greenland: Whale wisdom

    The Inuit community in Ittoqqortoormiit comes together to prepare whale meat, but one of the party has seen it all before

January 2012

  • Greenland

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: The drifted snow to dust the travellers' feet

    Tim Radford quotes from Spencer Chapman's writings on explorer Henry Watkins' last expedition

November 2011

  • Senja Island, Norway

    Experts' and readers' tips
    Readers' 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

January 2011

  • Cappadocia

    Where I find inspiration …

    To introduce our inspiration special, philosophers, artists and writers tell of places that quicken their creative pulse

November 2010

  • Polar Circle marathon 2010 leaders

    Polar Circle marathon 2010

  • Polar Circle marathon 2010 leaders

    Running away
    Running the Polar Circle marathon

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