Bouncing back from under the weight of Ice Age glaciers which have long since vanished, the Nordic region land mass is slowly ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.

Sure, it’s a challenging trek, but once you’re standing on that summit marker – able to point to three different countries in one spin – you’ll realise that epic doesn’t even begin to describe it.