The route north: Charlie Bird’s Arctic adventure begins

Living at the Top of the World: a print and online project documenting life in the Arctic

Charlie Bird has already spent a week in the Arctic and tomorrow will arrive in Grise Fiord, one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth. For the next 28 days he will live there, documenting life for our print and online project Living at the Top of the World. Before he left he told us about what he is expecting.

Read the full story in the Weekend Review and on irishtimes.com this Saturday.

Charlie Bird is packing his bags and embarking on an expedition to the Arctic Circle exclusively for The Irish Times. Charlie will be generating regular video pieces about his exploits. Video: Darragh Bambrick