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In the beautiful but
harsh frontier of the Canadian Arctic, the South Camp Inn is a gleaming ray of
warmth and hospitality. There's a fresh pot of hot homemade soup at the
ready 24 hours a day, the accommodations are clean and comfortable and the staff
is always friendly and pleased to help.
During the two weeks I spent there as the base manager for a dogsled expedition
to the North Pole, a constant stream of fascinating people flowed through the
South Camp Inn. It's a place where all different kinds of folks from all
different cultures and corners of the world cross paths, hoist a glass and
exchange a few stories about polar bears, narwhales and the Inuit people.....The
experience was like climbing inside a Hemingway novel. In that sense, the
South Camp Inn is the most intriguing places I have ever had the good fortune to
visit.
Presiding over all this is owner-operator Aziz Kheraj who went out of his way
to help me negotiate, navigate and otherwise perform tasks that were vital to
the success of our expedition and the safety of its members. Az repeatedly
interrupted his personal schedule to help me stitch together one last-minute
detail or another.
In the brief time I spent there, the place came to feel like home. That's
the atmosphere Aziz and his staff strive to create. They succeed
with flying colors.
David Wecker
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