Once regarded as a shortcut for the global shipping network, the Northwest Passage (NWP) is now facing ever-growing hurdles in limiting its possible use as an alternative route. While climate change ...
Amundsen specifically designed his Northwest Passage expedition so that he and his men would learn to live like the masters of Arctic survival, the polar Inuit. Today, due to a precipitous increase in ...
which lies the eastern entrance of the fabled Northwest Passage. They travel on the breaking ice floe, dive with belugas and narwhals in the open Arctic Ocean, and explore the underside of the sea ...
In 1903 he established himself as a sailor and explorer of the first order when he successfully led a 70-foot fishing boat through the entire length of the Northwest Passage, a treacherous ice ...