Enjoy Arctic Adventure On Dark, Snowy Island ; As a Growing Number of Tourists Choose to Be Polar Explorers, Victoria Mitchell Heads to the Far North to Experience the Wonders of a Snowy Wilderness.

South Wales Evening Post › December 03, 2011

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IT'S mid-afternoon, minus 20 degrees and pitch black. There are polar bears out there, somewhere, and our guides are armed.

The only sound is the breathing of six husky dogs pulling our sled along the snow-carpeted valley floor.

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Enjoy Arctic Adventure On Dark, Snowy Island ; As a Growing Number of Tourists Choose to Be Polar Explorers, Victoria Mitchell Heads to the Far North to Experience the Wonders of a Snowy Wilderness.

Our intrepid group are on the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic where the 2,500 inhabitants are outnumbered by 3,000 polar bears. The spot ...

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