“Is this for REAL?” my wife Sue & I kept asking each other last week while romping with polar bears on Hudson Bay. A dozen of us took part in Wintergreen’s pioneering venture with Churchill Wild at their lovely Seal River Heritage Lodge in northern Manitoba to hike the Arctic Ocean shore amongst polar bears waiting [...]
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Polar Bears galore!
Posted by paulschurke on November 1st, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, The Arctic 
Tags: Adventure Travel, Arctic, dogsledding, polar bears 
1 Comment »The man who taught the Pope how to control Satan
Posted by brucegs13 on July 11th, 2010
Being in the adventure business has given us the chance to rub shoulders with many bigger-than-life characters who are an inspiration to all of us. Chief among these is Norman Vaughan whose “Dream big and dare to fail” motto made him the living epitome that attitude means everything. He started young, training his first dog [...]
It’s Raining Cats & Sled Dogs!
Posted by brucegs13 on July 7th, 2010
Hundreds of sled dogs were pressed into duty during WWII for search and rescue missions throughout Greenland, Canada and Alaska. But they also saw duty on the Western Front in one of the least-known stories of sled dog heroics that involved one of the most amazing adventurers Wintergreen has ever had the honor of being [...]
Posted in The Arctic, The Dogs, The Tales Tags: Alaska, Arctic, Battle of the Bulge, Canada, France, German Army, Greenland, musher, Newfoundland, Norman Vaughan, parachutes, Section Eight, Sled Dogs, Toul, US Army, War Dogs, World War II, WWII 2 Comments »Wintergreen Team Finds Wooly Mammoth … at Target
Posted by brucegs13 on June 30th, 2010
“Baby Mammoth Heads To Paris.“ That’s not a headline you see every day — at least not since mammoths became extinct about 10,000 year ago. This week’s press announcement of a frozen prehistoric mammal’s transport from the Russian Arctic to a French research center caught our eye because it involved polar fossil collector Bernard Buigues. [...]
The Most Amazing Sled Dog in Polar History
Posted by paulschurke on June 25th, 2010
Meet the world’s most accomplished sled dog! We first met him in spring 1985. We called him Sam. He went on to make canine history in a big way. We were on a 5-month, 5,000-mile dogsled trek across North America — from Duluth, MN, to Barrow, AK, the northernmost village in the USA. Our team, [...]
Posted in The Adventures, The Arctic, The Dogs Tags: Beaufort Sea, Cold War, Dew Line, Ely, Lead Dog, Minnesota, North Pole, South Pole, Will Steger 4 Comments »Ghost Ships of High Arctic
Posted by brucegs13 on June 18th, 2010
The Bermuda Triangle holds nothing over the high arctic when it comes to mysteries at sea. In fact, two of Wintergreen’s favorite arctic adventure haunts, Russia’s Barents Sea and Canada’s Queen Elizabeth Islands are sites of those mysteries. The first involved Sir Hugh Willoughby, a British sea captain who set sail on the Bona Esperanza [...]
Posted in The Arctic, The Tales Tags: Actic Tales, Adventure Travel, Arctic, arctic adventures, Barents Sea, Barrack Obama, Bermuda Triangle, Bona Esperanza, Captain Edward Belcher, Explorer, Ghost Ships, HMS Resolute, Jackie Kennedy, Northeast Passage, Polar Advenure Travel, President Hayes, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Queen Victoria, Resolute Bay, Resolute desk, Sir Hugh Willoughby, Svalbard No Comments »Wintergreen’s Adventure Diplomacy Expedition Commemorated in Anchorage
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
When we dogsledded and skied from Siberia to Alaska 20 years ago in our effort to help re-open the U.S.-Soviet border in the Bering Strait, little did we know that the project would someday be memorialized in a very unusual way. But this week we got a call from Alaska Airlines to tell us that [...]
The Wacky Side of Polar Adventure Travel
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
Buried somewhere in the windblown snowdrifts along the north shore of our continent is a motorcycle. Some 30 years ago, it was destined for the North Pole until it’s driver, a Japanese adventurer, quickly realized that motorcycles are worthless on the fractured pack ice of the polar sea. Perhaps he knew his scheme was ill-conceived [...]
Posted in The Adventures, The Arctic, The Tales Tags: Actic Tales, Arctic, Polar Advenure Travel, Wacky 1 Comment »A Tragic Arctic Love Story
Posted by brucegs13 on May 26th, 2010
An Arctic tale discovered, researched and told by Paul Schurke In 1897, three Swedish explorers led by Salomon Andree took off from the Arctic in a hydrogen-filled balloon named the Eagle in an attempt to fly over the North Pole. Sadly, they were never seen alive again. But the tragic story gained a romantic twist [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Arctic, The Tales Tags: Arctic, Explorer, Love Story, North Pole No Comments »
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