WHALE WATCHING TOURS

Comfort in the Wilderness
Since 2000, Canadian Arctic Holidays has operated Arctic Watch, the world’s most northerly remote lodge. A visit to Arctic Watch is an arctic safari featuring comfort, remoteness, wildlife and scenery.

The Explorer Spirit
We started our arctic adventures in 1985. In 1995, Richard Weber and his friend Misha Malakhov, in the spirit of the early explorers, completed the first, and only journey to the North Pole and back with no outside assistance. We’ve lead the world’s first commercial North Pole trip in 1993. Today, we lead ski trips to the geographic North Pole and remote areas of the High Arctic. Most of these areas are seldom, if ever visited by man.

Special Routes
All our trips are carefully researched and selected for amazing scenery, abundant wildlife or re-tracing historical routes. Since most of our clients have traveled with us on prior trips, we have to continually come up to new, innovative and exciting routes.

Group Travel
Travel in remote arctic regions requires experience, planning and preparation. We use our unique experience to properly plan and prepare your trip in every detail. Our guides are highly experienced individuals who have a love for arctic adventure. Our groups, typically six to eight people in size, are wonderfully diverse. All our guests share a love for the outdoors, exploration and discovery. Planning your own trip can be time consuming and expensive. Let us do the work and you could make new friends too!

About Our Team

Richard Weber & Josée Auclair
Josée and Richard both started skiing at an early age. Richard was competing by age six and a member of Canada's National CrossCountry Ski Team by age 18. He retired in 1985 with 20 national titles. Richard has a bachelor degree in mechanical engineer from the University of Vermont. Richard has co-authored two books about his adventures. Josée also spent some years competing for Canada on the National ski team. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany from the University of Vermont and a teaching certificate from the University of Quebec. Richard and Josée met while ski racing.<

• First North Pole trek with no re-supplies; 1986 Steger International Polar expedition.
• First surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada; 1988 Polar Bridge Expedition.
• First commercial North Pole Trek; 1993 North Pole Dash – last degree.
• First and only journey to the North Pole and back with no outside assistance; 1995 Weber-Malakhov Expedition.
• First snowshoe trek to the North Pole; first guided unsupported North Pole trek; North Pole classic 2006.
• Richard has participated in more than 50 arctic and North Pole expeditions.

Josée’s Expedition Highlights
Josée made her first arctic expedition in 1988, a first crossing of the Penny Ice Cap on Baffin Island. Her first North Pole experience was in 1999.

• 1999 – 2004 Annual treks covering the last degree to the North Pole.
• Woman Quest; an all woman trek to the North Pole in 2001.
• South Pole; 2007 an all woman trek covering the last degree to the South Pole.

Tourism Experience
Richard and Josée started arctic tourism with the world’s first commercial North Pole trek in 1993, hiking and kayaking trips on Baffin Island. In 2000, they opened “Arctic Watch Wilderness Lodge”, Canada’s most northerly lodge on Somerset Island in Nunavut. Arctic Watch Lodge is Nunavut’s largest and most unique tourism operation.

Tessum Weber
The eldest son of Richard Weber and Josée Auclair, he has been trekking in the arctic since the age of six weeks. Tessum went to the North Pole in 2005, and has taken part on an ski trek across Ellesmere Island. At the age of 18, he continues to work in the family business, sharing his love for the arctic with every guest.