With Nanuk Operations, we gathered for Indigenous storytelling in a yurt and showshoed while hoping the northern lights would make an appearance. Frontiers North Adventures took us across the frozen Churchill River for a remote dinner experience in a Tundra Buggy, an all-terrain vehicle built to safely showcase wildlife.

Yukon-based Alysa McCall, Polar Bears International staff scientist and director of conservation outreach, is stationed in Churchill for the week living and working on a Tundra Buggy provided by Frontiers North Adventures.

“As the sea ice is declining in areas around the world, polar bears are spending more time on land like they are here in western Hudson Bay,” McCall said in a Zoom interview. “When polar bears spend more time on land, they get hungrier and are more likely to go searching for food where they shouldn’t — and that includes communities.”