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 ...