from $9,250* per person | 16 Days | July, August |
Luxury accommodations
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Exertion level: 3
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Operator: Legendary Expeditions |
12 people max
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Ellesmere Island is one of the world's most pristine wilderness areas. In this dramatic fjordland we retrace the footsteps of the earliest Polar explorers, and in our kayaks we travel as the ancestral Inuit might have done. Our expeditions pass by numerous and hauntingly "alive" habitation and hunting sites of prehistoric peoples. Strewn along this coast are ancient winter house excavations, tent rings, kayak stands and stone fox traps - ruins of the Thule culture, people who lived along these shores a thousand years ago.
Twenty-four-hour sunlight accents the photographic potential with the magical back lighting of delicate woolly flowers or the glistening spray plumes of walrus and Narwhal blowing in the fjords during the wee hours of dawn. During the past 20 years we have nearly a hundred kayak expeditions on Ellesmere Island, and we remain convinced that this trip is the ultimate adventure for sea kayakers and Arctic aficionados alike.
Highlights
* Expeditions follow the footsteps of polar explorers Otto Sverdrup and Adolphus Greeley.
* A polar desert with dry, mild summers.
* Exceptionally remote and pristine.
* Scenery of deep fjords, jutting headlands, calving tidewater glaciers and icebergs. Glacial valleys and tundra of sedges, willows and Arctic poppies.
* Dramatic arctic light for photography.
* Extraordinary silence and solitude.
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