A journey a year-and-a-half in the making reached its zenith in Tuktoyaktuk earlier this year.

Vincent Le Li猫vre has been making his way Northward since he landed in Panama last year. Setting out Oct. 21, 2021, the Belgian adventurer sailed the Atlantic to the canal before cycling his way into Mexico.

From there, heSA国际影视传媒檚 been relying on the kindness of strangers to get him the remaining ~8,000 kilometres to the Arctic Circle. But on Jan. 13 he was able to make the final hop over the Dempster Highway thanks to a ride from Marjorie Blake.

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Having spent the last year and change trekking across North America, Le Li猫vre has seen a great deal of incredible sights. Joining his trek across the Dempster and seeing the auroras in Whitehorse were volcanic eruptions in Guatemala, the Panama jungle, Jasper National Park, the sequoia trees of California and a month in the desert helping out at a wild mustang ranch.

As romantic a journey as it sounds, Le Li猫vre noted he selected the Beaufort Delta largely because of the Dempster Highway, noting his initial goal was to see how far he could travel without getting on an airplane.

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A lot of adventure travel requires one to be in peak physical shape, either by walking, biking or otherwise travelling by human power. Le Li猫vre said he was in pretty decent shape now, but his method of travelling is really open to anyone who is willing to take the plunge.

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