From exciting snowmobile tours to cosy cabin retreats, winter is a magical time to visit Svalbard's remote Arctic landscapes. Photograph by Hurtigruten Svalbard With imposing ice caps, rocky islands ...

Heart-stopping video shows a man drop his gun and then narrowly outrun a polar bear in Norway. While at a hotel in Svalbard for a ski expedition last month, Rebecca Baack captured video from her ...

As I grip my fur-lined, double-gloved hands around the handlebars of my snowmobile and accelerate into the icy, pitch black of the Arctic night, the -30c wind chill sears against my face. The only ...

It was almost like a scene out of a movie as a man dropped everything and jumped onto a snowmobile to escape a charging polar bear in Norway. Dramatic video footage captured by Rebecca Baack, who was ...

Improbable, measureless and beautifully sinister, Svalbard is a natural film set - it's no wonder parts of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning were filmed here. The size of Ireland, the ...

One disconcerting thing about sightseeing on these frozen Arctic islands at the edge of the polar ice pack: the biggest tourist attractions might be returning your stare. And to them, you’re a ...

To reach Svalbard you fly north from mainland Norway into night and out the other side. We take off after 11pm from Oslo in darkness, but at 1am, the Barents Sea black below us and the sleeping Earth ...