In a bit of ironic timing, the Michelsen Arctic Explorer ($1,960) arrived on our doorstep on one ... digging a snow cave with your ice axe or just digging out your car after a blizzard.

They awoke to a blizzard ... s Arctic. In 1905, a Norwegian man, Roald Amundsen — who went to live among the Inuit to learn how to survive in the Arctic — became the first European explorer ...