The plane descends in swirling snow, and at 3 PM, it’s pitch black outside my window. We land in Kiruna, Sweden, a town of 18,000 deep in the Arctic Circle, and the darkness feels absolute. This far ...
Some places on Earth experience months of continuous daylight due to the Midnight Sun phenomenon. From Norway’s Longyearbyen ...
On the first day of Hari Raya, I found myself travelling to Salekhard, the capital city of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in ...