Trekking is an adventure which lets you scale and hike up and down treacherous terrains of uneven lands where you have to trudge through scatterings of boulders, huge rocks and on occasions, heavy blankets of snow. Trekking all the way to the base camp of the world’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest seems daunting at first, […]
Drive to Diamond Paradise
Once a hotbed of gold mining, Canada’s far north is now unearthing riches from a different precious commodity: diamonds. At the Diavik mine, just over 200 km (130 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, a 200 meter (650 foot) deep crater pierces a frozen-white tundra, yielding some of the purest diamond deposits known. "They’re among […]