Highway to the Arctic

Highway to the Arctic (2017)

February 21st, 20170h 43min

Documentary
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Overview

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. While the landscape is covered with snow and lakes of a thick layer of ice, blocking land transport, ice roads are converted to frozen expanses as far as the eye can see.


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