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