In March 2013, I fulfilled one of my bucket-list adventures. I travelled to Alaska during the northern winter and witnessed an amazing phenomenon. At minus 30 degrees Celsius, the sky put on a magnificent display. We stayed in Wiseman, which is a hunting village during summer, and Wiseman is 100 kilometres above the Arctic Circle in the Brookes Ranges.
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