We have a great relationship with Travel Manitoba, a Destination Marketing Organization that promotes Manitoba as an awesome place to vacation. We found a great video they posted on their YouTube channel of 3 excited tourists on one of our Tundra Buggy adventures. They also were able to participate in a dogsledding adventure.
Check it out!
Photographer Michelle Valberg travelled to Churchill and captured some amazing polar bear and other arctic wildlife images that were recently featured in the Ottawa Citizen.
Michelle was fortunate to see over 54 polar bears in one day. In total, she snapped 6,140 photos on her trip for a book she’s working on entitled ‘The Land & Life of the Inuit … Through the Generations.’ Proceeds from this book will be donated to aid literacy and fitness and recreation for Inuit children.
Here are some of her images. To view her story in the Ottawa Citizen and more photos, click here.
We are very excited that our first adventure of the new year is our beloved Northern Lights & Winter Nights trip to Churchill. Our excitement seems to be rubbing off, as it has been featured in both the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune travel sections over the past week.
The Aurora Borealis is truly awe-inspiring and we can’t wait to host it again at the end of March.
Our first adventure in 2010 is our Northern Lights & Winter Nights program in Churchill on March 23 – 30. We have done up a quick video montage of images we have captured on this adventure in years past. This is truly a photographer’s dream come true! We are looking forward to capturing more amazing photos this year with our guests!
A few years ago we had the opportunity to host Rick Mercer of CBC’s Rick Mercer Report in Churchill. We had a lot of fun and figured we would share it again!
In conjunction with the Olympic Torch Relay passing through Churchill, we had the opportunity to host Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola and other senior management members of both Coca-Cola and WWF.
In a great article series by Marc Gunther, which has also been featured on CNNMoney.com, Marc chats with Muhtar Kent while he was in Copenhagen lending support to a global agreement to regulate carbon emissions.
While on our Tundra Buggy, Kent witnessed what most of us did this past autumn. He is quoted in the article:
“There were a lot of hungry polar bears waiting for the ice,” Kent said. “They were coming out of hibernation, they’d been on land for months, and they can’t feed unless they are on ice. The ice was late in forming, and we saw that with our own eyes.”
Please read the rest of Marc’s article here.
Happy New Year!
2010 is a very special year for us. It marks the 30th anniversary of Frontiers North Adventures. Some days we cannot believe that we have been adventuring in Canada’s north for 30 years!
Over the years our homegrown company has moved out of the Gunter basement and into a spacious office in Winnipeg.
Business People Magazine: Summer, 1993
We now conduct extensive international business and sell direct to our guests and also through a global network of agents and wholesalers. Our destination portfolio – still sharply focused on Canada’s north – has evolved to include more of Manitoba, Elu Inlet Lodge, Foxe Basin, Arctic cruises and coastal British Columbia. Striving to operate a sustainable, professionally managed organization, we currently offer close to 65 departures and employ over 60 full-time and seasonal staff.
We’ve come a long way, baby!
National Geographic: March, 1982
LIFE Magazine: February, 1984
50 Plus Magazine: February, 1987
Thank you for your support!!!
Here are some of our favourite highlights from 2009 that we speak of in our 2010 brochure:
Kassie Siegel, Director, Climate Law Institute for the Center for Biological Diversity has travelled with us twice to see the polar bears of Churchill, the second time being this past autumn. Kassie was also a part of PBI’s Tundra Connections panel on Tundra Buggy One. She has written and reflected about her experience while making her way to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change conference.
Click here to read about her time in Churchill. You can also see Kassie here as she participated in November Tundra Connections webcasts on Tundra Buggy One!
Images ©Brendan Cummings
Here are some great images sent to us by Nigel Hazelden. He travelled to Churchill at the beginning of November to view the Hudson Bay polar bears. Again, if you have any photos from our adventures you would like to share, please email them to us at: website@frontiersnorth.com.
All images ©Nigel Hazelden
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