Dehradun, Feb. 15 -- Boat finding its way through ice-flow.

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

So, I thought I should now write about the famed mid-night sun, a phenomenon found in the polar Arctic and Antarctic. This is when the sun just doesn't go away for 6 months (in reality a bit less & depends on how far you are from the pole) and then it just disappears for another 6 months, leaving us with the long dark polar night.

Those regularly reading my Sunday feature on Garhwal Post know that we had flown in from Copenhagen to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland and then to the Iceberg capital of the world, Ilulissat in a tiny 8-seater plane. Here we were having the time of our lives watching the raw beauty and fury of nature. We often...