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
