Polar express

If it weren't for the red flags marking the tundra trail to the glacier, some of us - passengers on the Hurtigruten cruise ship MS Fram, sailing out of Spitsbergen - might have been tempted to leave the slowpokes behind and bushwhack across country. But as newcomers are relentlessly reminded here in Svalbard Archipelago that polar bears are the Big Dogs.

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