It is difficult to imagine something more remote than land located in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The area is almost three times the size of France, yet the population is about the same as that of a small provincial town. Names like Yellowknife, Great Bear Lake and Mackenzie River are associated with adventure, doing their share to inspire boys since the time of trappers. The photos here are from a canoe trip down the Horton River, which is only one among an infinite number of rivers in the Northwest Territories located north of the polar circle. The river rises north of Great Bear Lake, runs 600 km northward through spectacular landscape on the border between forest and tundra, and finally reaches the Polar Sea. The Horton River only gets a dozen visitors each year, because it only can be reached by an expensive, long flight on a hydroplane. But when you finally get there, you have the whole wilderness to yourself – together with the many bears, wolves, musk oxen and other wild animals.