BLUE LAGOON

Iceberg Alley, Antarctica, 2013

“A large portion of my life has been centered around ice. Whether a glacier, ice bergs, bergie bits or sea ice, my career has focused on traveling to the ends of the earth to explore these majestic and elegant marvels. Ice is not only a key indicator of our changing climate, but also plays a vital role for all of the species that inhabit our polar regions. It is nearly impossible to translate the beauty and scale of these colossal frozen sculptures…”

-Paul Nicklen

BEAR’S LAIR

Svalbard, Norway, 2008

A polar bear’s tracks are all that remain as they lead off into the face of a glacier.

ARCTIC NOMAD

Manitoba, Canada, 1996

A male polar bear waits for the sea ice to freeze. Every year the sea ice forms later in the fall and melts earlier in the spring, leaving bears stranded on land for longer periods of time. As long as there is sea ice, bears like this one will continue to dominate the food chain in the Arctic.

ARCTIC JOURNEY

Greenland, 2015

An Inuit hunter steers his dog team towards the floe edge.

ARCTIC GHOST

Nanavut, Canada, 1997

Wearing its beautiful winter coat, an Arctic fox stalks its prey. Because of their amazingly warm fur, their metabolic rate does not actually change until temperatures reach the minus 40s. These small canines survive by hunting mice and other small birds and mammals.

ARCTIC CANARIES

Nunavut, Canada, 2005

Beluga whales are best known for their whistles, clicks and squeals.

UNCHARTED

Franz Josef Land, Russia, 2017

THE WAITING GAME

British Columbia, Canada, 2010

When the great runs of salmon return to the creeks along the northern coast of British Columbia, bears, like this Spirit Bear, a black bear with a rare recessive gene that makes him pure white, descend onto the fast running creeks to gorge on the migrating fish.

THE LAST STAND

Iceberg Alley, Antarctica, 2006

TEEN SPIRIT

South Georgia, 2008

Juvenile king penguins—named “Oakum Boys” by sailors for the colour of oakum used to caulk timbers on sailing ships—gather in Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia. The adult king penguin searches for its chick in the crowd, carrying a belly full of krill to feed their young.