Canada
Kluane National Park
Canada's highest peak guards the largest non-polar ice field on Earth, and almost no one comes.
Mount Logan rises 5,959 metres above Kluane National Park — the highest point in Canada, and fewer people have reached its summit than have climbed Everest. Below it, the St. Elias icefields spread in every direction, the largest non-polar ice mass on Earth.
Kluane National Park in the Yukon protects a landscape of extremes — Canada's highest mountains, its largest glaciers, and some of its most remote wilderness. The park's icefields and peaks are so vast that flightseeing tours reveal crevasse fields and glacial rivers invisible from any ground-level vantage point. Grizzly bears, Dall sheep, and golden eagles occupy a landscape where you can hike for days without crossing a trail. The Alsek River, flowing from the icefields to the Pacific, is one of the world's elite multi-day whitewater routes, passing through landscapes no road can reach. The Kluane First Nation has lived in the region for thousands of years, and their cultural history is woven into the park's interpretation.
Solo
Kluane is for the solo traveller who wants to feel genuinely alone in a vast landscape. Multi-day backcountry hiking routes pass through grizzly country with no other humans in sight.
Friends
A group expedition — whether a flightseeing tour over the icefields, a multi-day Alsek River raft trip, or a backcountry hiking traverse — delivers shared experiences at a scale that's difficult to process.
- Mount Logan at 5,959 metres is the highest peak in Canada, and fewer people have summited it than Everest.
- The St. Elias icefields inside the park form the largest non-polar ice mass on Earth.
- Grizzly bears, Dall sheep, and golden eagles occupy a landscape so vast you can hike for days without crossing a trail.
- Flightseeing tours over the icefields reveal crevasse fields and glacial rivers that no ground-level view can match.
Trail mix and freeze-dried meals taste profound when surrounded by ice fields and silence.
Wild berry bannock cooked by Southern Tutchone guides at the edge of the ice.
The one restaurant in Haines Junction serves elk stew that fuels a week in the backcountry.
Daisetsuzan
Japan
Japan's first autumn colour igniting an alpine plateau where bears and pikas roam unchallenged.
Askole
Pakistan
Civilisation's last outpost before the glaciers where porters load supplies for the walk to K2.
Gandikota
India
A red-stone gorge sliced through by a green river, guarded by a ruined fort.
Uluguru Mountains
Tanzania
Mountains older than the Himalayas, draped in cloud forest sheltering species found nowhere else.
Île d'Anticosti
Canada
An island bigger than PEI with 200 white-tailed deer per resident and zero stoplights.
Clearwater River
Canada
A river so clear the gravel glows twenty feet down through boreal wilderness no road reaches.
Churchill River
Canada
Cree pictographs and abandoned fur-trade posts along a canoe route through trackless boreal forest.
Dempster Highway
Canada
Canada's only road to the Arctic Ocean — 700 kilometres of gravel and caribou herds.