This is an amazing feat of endurance and wisdom earned from living on ancestral land. The Canadian Rangers are simply outstanding, and the rest of the country has much to learn from them.
Photojournalist Gavin John joined a group of Canadian Rangers as they participated in the yearly Operation Nanook-Nunalivut.
The goal: Travel 5,400-kilometres by snowmobile to Churchill, Man., from Inuvik, NWT, without any road infrastructure.
In a show of Canada’s military strength, patrol group braves freezing temperatures and ferocious winds as they begin a journey that will take them across 5,000 km of the harshest terrain on Earth
