It is doubtful you will be called upon to use the foliage for medicinal purposes, but the aesthetics in the landscape is ...

It is doubtful you will be called upon to use the foliage for medicinal purposes but the aesthetics in the landscape is another thing. The North Pole is considered not only beautiful but mild ...

Owned by no-one, claimed by many, the enigmatic North ... landscape is. Before this voyage, nobody would be able to realise that this panorama stretches all the way up there to the elusive North Pole.

But nearly a decade later, she's still there after she "fell in love" with Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago near the North Pole ... dotted along a snowy landscape under a dark night sky.

(SOUNDBITE OF WATER) EMILY KWONG: The North Pole has long been locked in ice. But climate change is breaking the Arctic apart, turning a polar landscape into something far more friendly for boats ...