Snowboarding in Finnish Lapland: Resorts, Snow Parks and Season
Finnish Lapland has no Alpine peaks, yet it has produced some of the world's best freestyle snowboarders. Its rounded fells, called tun...
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Joni Niemelä’s Northern Lights Photos from Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland
Most northern-lights photographs from Finland come from Lapland, but Joni Niemelä made these far to the south, on the plains and lakeshores...
Inari Northern Lights Time-Lapse by Tomi Rantanen, Finnish Lapland
A small boat sits on a dark lake while green and violet curtains of light ripple overhead. Finnish photographer Tomi Rantanen spent the aut...
Snow Swimming in Finland: The 2013 'Championship' Comedy Clip
Somewhere in a Finnish winter, a line of competitors throws itself into deep snow and starts swimming, with every stroke performed in powde...
Oulanka National Park in Winter: Skiing, Snowshoe Trails and Rapids
In winter, Oulanka National Park turns into a world of snow-laden spruce, frozen canyon walls and dark green rapids that never quite stop mo...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: 15 Snowy Places from Banff to Japan
Snow changes a place more than any other weather. A footbridge in New York, a thatched village in Japan, a turquoise lake in the Canadian R...
Sulo Karjalainen, Finland's Bear Man of the Kuusamo Carnivore Centre
Sulo Karjalainen is known across Finland as the Bear Man of Kuusamo. In a 2014 Barcroft TV film, the then 73-year-old hugs and plays with f...
Finnish Night Sky Photography: Joni Niemelä’s Moonlight and Star Trails
Finnish photographer Joni Niemelä photographed the night sky over rural Finland between 2011 and 2016, most of it in the region of Southern...
19 Winter Landscapes Around the World: Peyto Lake to Shirakawa-go
Snow turns familiar places into new ones. These nineteen winter landscapes run from a snowy street in Liverpool and frosted riverbanks in B...
Midnight Sun in the Arctic: Where and When the Sun Never Sets
It is a minute past midnight in Longyearbyen, and the painted wooden houses of Svalbard glow in full sunshine. North of the Arctic Circle, ...
Seal Pup Follows Skier Juha Salo on Finland's Frozen Coast
On 18 March 2012, skier Juha Salo was out on the snowy ice of Finland's western coast when a small, pale seal pup shuffled up and start...
Santra the Bear’s Yoga Stretches at Ähtäri Zoo, Finland
Santra, a female brown bear at Ähtäri Zoo in Finland, became famous in 2010 as “the bear who practises yoga”. Slovenian visitor Meta Penca ...
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Finnish Lapland in Winter: Riisitunturi’s Snow-Crowned Forests
Few winter landscapes look as sculpted as the forests of Finnish Lapland. By midwinter, spruces on the higher hills carry so much frost and ...
Mikko Lagerstedt's Night II: Finnish Night Photography of Snow and Stars
Blue snow under dark pines, a warm glow deep in the forest, the Milky Way arching over a rocky shore: Mikko Lagerstedt's Night II seri...
Frozen Trees of Lapland: Niccolò Bonfadini’s Sentinels of the Arctic
In the far north of Finland, winter turns whole forests into crowds of white figures. Italian photographer Niccolò Bonfadini spent a winter...
Kakslauttanen Glass Igloos: Northern Lights Hotel in Finnish Lapland
Lie in a warm bed, look up through a dome of glass and watch the northern lights ripple across the Arctic sky. That is the idea behind the g...
Helsinki Zoo Brown Bears Wake from Hibernation and Play in the Snow
In early March 2013, the brown bears at Helsinki’s Korkeasaari Zoo stepped out of their winter quarters for the first time since November a...
Frost Flowers on Lake Ice: How the Crystals Form
On a cold, still morning, new ice on a lake can sprout a whole meadow of white "flowers". These frost flowers are clusters of ice...
20 Little Houses in Winter Scenery: Tromsø, Lapland, Iceland and the Alps
A single red cabin under snow-covered peaks near Tromsø, a yellow house among frosted trees, a hunting lodge buried to its roof in the Dolo...
Northern Lights in Finnish Lapland: Fox Fires, Aurora Science and Tips
Finnish Lapland sits right under the auroral oval, and on a clear winter night the sky above its forests, fells and frozen lakes can fill w...