The captain
Captain Leif Skog, best in the business. He guides the National Geographic Explorer through polar bear habitat — deeper and deeper into the ice. Photo by Eric Guth.
Our Journey
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Best way to start the day
Early morning polar bear in Nunavut. Best way to start the day! Photo by Eric Guth.
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Polar bear reflections
Oh my. Of all of the portraits we bring to you, the polar bear’s profile must be one of the most beautiful. With as many moods as any person I’ve ever met, these creatures surprise me each time I see them. Each encounter is a gift and a reminder of how beautiful the ocean is…
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Back in action
Back in action after a long break from the internet up here in Nunavut and Greenland. We’ve been setting our course by the midnight sun and finding new stories.
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The one and only Greenland
The one. The only. Greenland. Photo by Eric Guth.
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Hunting tools and teatime
I love finding little tableaus from the places we visit – these details bring out the story of place. Here (and this is the answer to yesterday’s question), Danish and Greenlandic artifacts decorate the wall of a sod house at the museum in Sisimiut, Greenland. Photo by Eric Guth.
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Back in the Arctic for the summer
We’re back! We’re up north! After some time away from you all, it’s time to keep this journey going. Can you guess where we are? Where is this sunflower growing? Happy Summer! Photo by Eric Guth.
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Explorer’s Journal: Crossing that bridge
The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve represents a much larger story of relationships between different Arctic people and how the north was settled. Though the landscape looks much different now than during the last…
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Transportation, not tourism, in Arctic Iceland
As shipping patterns change, one town plans to join the emerging supply chain. “Meet the North,” a series that ventures into the lives of some of the 4 million people who call the Arctic home, explores an industrial future in a quiet corner of Iceland…
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Explorer’s Journal: Hockey love in Arctic style
Hockey is popular all over this country, but places like Pond Inlet, at the northern tip of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, are most often associated—for a southern audience at least—with hunting, snowmobiles, and seal meat. Not with the…
