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Last icy stand: Scaling Mount Logan
Four researchers team up to ascend Mount Logan, measuring change and resilience on Canada’s highest peak
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Exploration
Return to the Peel
We came to retrace an ancestor’s 1905 map-making expedition of the Peel River watershed. We left with a new-found appreciation of what this ancient land means to the people who live there.
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Exploration
Climbing duo completes first winter ascent of Yukon’s Mt. Wood
Canadian climber Pascale Marceau is believed to be the first woman to climb a major subarctic peak in winter
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Exploration
Expedition log: Back to the Peel
David McGuffin shares insights from his daily log during his summer 2018 expedition retracing a legendary trek on the Yukon’s Peel River
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People & Culture
People & Culture
Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon receives Louie Kamookak Medal
Pandher celebrated for spreading positivity and showcasing multiculturalism in Canada
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People & Culture
Inuit preschool, Yukon cold-climate greenhouse among winners of 2018 Arctic Inspiration Prize
A total of $2,566,000 was awarded to five Northern Indigenous programs at a ceremony in Whitehorse Feb. 12
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People & Culture
Canadians going for gold (literally) in Slovakia
A Dawson City, Yukon goldpanner is among several Canadians headed to the World Goldpanning Championship in Slovakia
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People & Culture
Interview with Yukon Quest musher Rob Cooke
A Yukon Quest musher shares his thoughts on the sled dog race
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Wildlife
Into the wintry kingdom of the Canada lynx
In the boreal forest, where secretive lynx depend on the snowshoe hare to survive, climate change threatens to upset this longstanding predator-prey relationship
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History
Going to Klondyke: The 19th-century game that brought the gold rush into American homes
Published in the New York Journal as a fanciful full-page map, Going to Klondyke encouraged everyday newspaper readers to try their luck at gold prospecting in the Yukon
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Travel
Now you can fly through the northern lights in the Yukon
Tourism Yukon has just launched the ultimate northern lights viewing experience: a private-chartered jet that flies through the aurora borealis
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Wildlife
Q&A: Photographer Peter Mather on wolves, the wilderness and finding a purpose
The Yukon-based photographer shares more of his wild wolf photos and how he discovered his passion for visual storytelling
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Exploration
Duo changes tack after conditions end Lucania climb attempt
Crevasses and the landing location near Mount Lucania force Lonnie Dupre and Pascale Marceau to set their sights on Mount Steele, Canada’s fifth-highest peak
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Environment
In the Supreme Court’s Peel watershed decision, signs of hope for a new land power paradigm
To many, the Yukon appears to be the vanguard of a growing Indigenous land power movement in Canada centred mostly in the North
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Exploration
Mountain bikers tackle the Tatshenshini in epic new film
Documentary follows four Canadian and American freeriders as they attempt previously unridden terrain in British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska
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Travel
Charlotte Gray on rafting the wild Tatshenshini and Alsek rivers
The acclaimed author discovers breathtaking scenery with a side of eggs benedict in Canada's North
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Wildlife
Beavers reported on the Yukon tundra for the first time
Arctic “shrubification” caused by global warming may be drawing herbivores further north
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Exploration
“I was stranded on Mount Logan — and it changed my life”
James Coleridge recalls the five days he spent clinging to life on Canada's highest peak
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The spell of the Yukon
An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush
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Environment
Peel Watershed problems
Reaction to the decision to open more than half of the Yukon’s Peel Watershed region to development
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Science & Tech
New energy in the Yukon
The territory grapples with meeting energy needs of growing populations and booming businesses
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