It's a thrill arriving in Tromso, for this is call-of-the-wild country. The frontier town 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle is a springboard to the snowy north's polar darkness, to the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. For some time now, Scandinavia has been touted as the new summer ...

To witness that extraordinary phenomenon: the Arctic sun sliding slowly in a long, low arc towards the northern horizon. It glances along the tops of the straggling lines of mountains, gilds the ...