The Arctic Expedition

Your family paddles beside narwhals, warms up at a snow house, finds a 42,000-year-old baby mammoth and visits Fram, the ship built to ride the ice. Then you learn why the North Pole is ice, not land.

• A narwhal’s tusk is a tooth that grows through its lip.
• An Inuit stone lamp, the qulliq, gave both light and heat.
• A Nenets herder found Lyuba, a 42,000-year-old baby mammoth, in 2007.
• Fram’s rounded hull let the ice lift it instead of crushing it.
• The North Pole is drifting sea ice, and every way is south.