The passengers and crew of the MS Fridtjof Nansen stand around me on the front deck, frantically waving and shouting at the 20,000-ton ship heading straight towards us.
It’s August in the High Arctic, and I’m onboard one of HX’s newest expedition ships, as we navigate our way through one of the world’s least-chartered waterways: the Northwest Passage. Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Arctic Ocean, it’s a route that defeated explorers for more than 400 years, before a team led by Norwegian polar legend, Roald Amundsen, made it through on the , taking three years to master the maze of more than 36,500 islands in the Canadian Archipelago and reaching
