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Arctic char sushi-style and a hike through the tundra – just another day at the world’s most remote resort.

By Mark Hacking

Photo: Gerald Corsi

My first invitation to visit the High Arctic is not that compelling. The offer: Ride shotgun with Arctic adventurer Richard Weber as he drives a bulldozer across the Northwest Passage from Resolute Bay to Cunningham Inlet. This, I think, is certifiably insane: The frigid trip is 80 kilometres and the bulldozer, which was originally needed to lengthen an airstrip, tops out at five kilometres an hour.

Instead, I sign up for a more comfortable option: spending a week in August at Arctic Watch Wilderness Lodge. Located 800 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle and run by Richard, his wife Josée Auclair and sons Tessum and Nansen, the lodge – actually a smattering of kitted-out white yurts – is nestled in Cunningham Inlet on Somerset Island.

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