The BBC joined Canada’s military rangers on the final leg of a 5,200km (3,200 miles) Arctic patrol, where they shared the survival skills needed to endure freezing temperatures, navigate remote tundra and camp in conditions as cold as -60C (-76F).

But how did the journalists on the trail, Nadine Yousif and Eloise Alanna, get the story to begin with?

Video by Eloise Alanna

Watch the report about surviving in the Arctic here

Read the story about the Canadian Rangers here

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