The Arctic: a place far from our latitudes and experience. Cold, very cold: that is the first thing that comes to mind. Mysterious, for most of us who have never been anywhere near it. Full of ice, of course. Is all this true? Only partly. Climate change has brought it closer to us with striking images and videos, so that old stereotypes that did not always correspond to reality have been replaced by others that are equally misleading, albeit in a different way. We've been there! Several times. The most exciting, which was also an Italian first, took us along the famous Northwest Passage.