Iqaluit Capitol of Nunavut, Canada
Temperatures dip below -25ºF/-32ºC
With the long dark season and 24-hour sunlight in the summer time
it requires a unique individual to be able to survive the Arctic.
My name is Chris Kalluk.
I am from Nunavut. I wanted to invite people
to the Arctic. I want people to know we exist up here.
And I wanted to be able to show people down south
what it is like up here.
Iqaluit was captured with the Google trekker. We hiked the whole
city of Iqaluit in the span of four days.
With the trekker you are able to follow trails, you can hop on a snow mobile, or a quad
or even on a dog team. Traditionally people use to rely
completely on dog sleds. There's still
a handful of people that go out hunting by dog sled,
but that's more for fun nowadays.
The world needs to see unique places and Canada's Arctic is most definitely a unique place.
Every community is not accessible by road.
You have to fly in and out, and nobody just passes through.
It feels good
knowing that people all over the world can finally see Canada's Arctic
as just amazing.
Hello Iqaluit.
Hello world.