Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, embodies the purity of winter. It is a place of vastness and restraint, where the horizon often blurs into the sky, and where a single tree on a snowy hill can hold the power of a dream.

Journey to the largest remaining corridor of the Chocó rainforest that is home to one of the last healthy populations of Ecuadorian brown-headed spider monkeys.

Explore the seemingly endless lands of lichens, mosses, dwarf willows, grass and the occasional windblown birches - this is the Arctic summer.