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Cruising’s cutting edge: The
Pelagic Australis, arguably the
world’s finest high-latitude
charter yacht, sleeps 12.
Rock star:
Italian climbing
guide Michele
Maggioni in
Songfjorden,
on Spitsbergen’s
northeast coast.
I ’ M WA L K I N G D OW N A N E M P T Y S T R E E T I N A C I T Y I ’ V E never seen before. Or, rather, I’m trying to walk. Every few steps, some giant unseen hand begins to push against me until, strain as I might, I eventually grind to a halt. Then, a moment later, the hand releases me and I go reeling forward, barely able to keep my feet.
It’s strangely exhilarating, this lurching promenade, but as soon as I start to enjoy it, I wake up—not in an alien city but in a narrow bunk in a
Polar bears, ice fields, forbidding cliffs. Welcome to Arctic Circle
yachting. Rob Buchanan sets sail for the island of Spitsbergen,
the North Pole’s nearest neighbor
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I ’ M WA L K I N G D OW N A N E M P T Y S T R E E T I N A C I T Y I ’ V Enever seen before. Or, rather, I’m trying to walk. Every few steps, some giant unseen hand begins to push against me until, strain as I might, I eventually grind to a halt. Then, a moment later, the hand releases me and I go reeling forward, barely able to keep my feet.
It’s strangely exhilarating, this lurching promenade, but as soon as I
C o n dE n a s t t r av E l E r / c n t r a v e l e r. c o m
S k i & S t a yin north america
readers’poll
The ski industry continues to shine. A stagger-ing 60.1 million lift tickets were issued in the United States last winter, an increase of almost ten percent over the previous year. As a new season gets under way, ski areas are respond-ing by offering better-quality rentals, a greater
Our readers point you toward the best on and off the slopes—from virgin powder begging to be carved to hotels that elevate après-ski to new heights
t choice of groomed trails, and, in these eco-nomically challenging times, packages priced more competitively than ever before. And since the overall scores have been climbing each year for the mountains and properties re-viewed on these pages, prepare to be dazzled.
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