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“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.

It sounds like Hyslop had quite an adventure in Canada’s far north. Specifically, she was on a kayak excursion in the Arctic Ocean, based out of the Lyubov Orlova, cruising the 1,400-mile fabled Northwest Passage with Inuit-owned Cruise North Expeditions. Her account for The Province, “Grand vistas make up for lack of frills on Northwest Passage cruise,” is riveting reading:

“…It may be a time of global warming, but this historic route from Europe to Asia can still be tricky—just as it was for the infamous British explorer Sir John Franklin and his ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, which disappeared 160 years ago.

“Our itinerary has to be flexible,” announced Inuit expedition leader Jason Annahatak, referring to the ever-changing ice our ice-class ship was navigating and assuring us it would not venture into uncharted, or too icy, areas. “So don’t worry if you feel the odd shudder as the ship hits a bit…”

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