Go with the floe

Piteälven, one of Sweden’s great rivers, has carved out 400km of sweeping landscape through Swedish Lapland by sheer brute force. In following these watercourses, Mark Waring learns lessons in fully appreciating this remote and seldom-visited wild land from the Norwegian border high in the Scandinavian mountains to the Baltic Sea

Let your running loose

Set against an archipelago of forested isles and the waves of the Baltic Sea, the Finnish capital lives in harmony with nature — locals take artistic inspiration from their wild surrounds and warm up in cedar-lined saunas

The seasoned polar explorer Franklin lost two vessels and 129 men, himself included, in the late 1840s, searching for the route that would take 3,000nm off the sea route to the Orient. Even though glo

Nike Lyberth-Berthelsen, the general secretary of the Greenland Football Association (GBU), gazes lovingly at the new 4G astroturf surface at the Nuuk Stadium for the umpteenth time, a proud grin upon

Sail Norway’s dramatic fjords high above the Arctic Circle and learn about the night sky on this small-ship cruise