After crossing Greenland, the plane flies over Ellesmere Island, in northern Canada.
Tourists suddenly rush to the portholes.
Broken into a thousand pieces, the pack ice delivers a spectacle that is both magnificent and disturbing… The break-up opens a passage to the Beaufort Sea, north of the Arctic Circle.
A coast totally free of ice then emerges on the horizon: Alaska.
The pilot announced the temperature: 32 ° C.
When we arrive in Kotzebue, the children bathe with their life jackets.
They throw themselves, dive, heckle in the Chukchi Sea.
"Come and have a swim, it's hot!"
launch Candice and Britney, enthused by this Hawaiian climate.
The parents watch the teenage girls over the railing of the platform.
They also bathed in their time in the lagoon, but not in water at 22 ° C in places.
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