The world within Cory Trépanier’s brain is an exotic collage of glittering icebergs, sweeping autumn-red tundra valleys and towering rock spires draped in glaciers.

There aren’t many places where you can spot beluga whales, icebergs, even polar bears while running a marathon. But you just might in Nunavut’s High Arctic during the annual Northwest Passage Marathon.

Hop on a qamutiq sled pulled by a team of trained dogs to try your hand at ice fishing, dropping a line through the frozen sea ice to catch an Arctic cod. Squint at the wintry landscape following your keen-eyed Inuit guide’s finger. Finally you spot them – a mother polar bear and cub!

This November, for the first time since 2008, the Pangnirtung Tapestry Studio at the Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts and Crafts in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, will be releasing a new collection.

Frontiers North, who brought polar bear peeping tundra buggies to Churchill, is introducing a new big-beast safari in Nunavut.

Teresa Earle has spent 15 years exploring Canada’s North, but she still has a yearning to see more. With bucket lists all the rage, we asked Earle to come with her own life list for discovering new lands North of Sixty, delivered to our media centre one amazing experience at a time. 5. Ellesmere Island (NU)

There are precious few music festivals north of the Arctic Circle so the new kid on the block, the second annual Rockin’ Walrus Arts Festival in Igloolik (population: 1,700) in Nunavut, is a welcome event.

Teresa Earle has spent 15 years exploring Canada’s North, but she still has a yearning to see more. With bucket lists all the rage, we asked Earle to come with her own life list for discovering new lands North of Sixty, delivered to our media centre one amazing experience at a time.

It’s a special event collectors wait all year for.

“No matter what the outcome, nothing surpassed actually witnessing the graves of three seamen from Franklin’s expedition,” writes reporter Lucy Hyslop, alluding to a historic discovery during her trip.