Finger Pulling, Head Pulling and Kick the Seal: Welcome to the Arctic Games!

When I first heard about the Arctic Winter Games, my head immediately filled with snowboarding, skiing, dog mushing, and possibly ice fishing. Occurring every two years (next in 2016), the Arctic Winter Games are the Olympics for athletes in the places that inhabit the Arctic Circle, including Canada, Russia, Alaska, Norway, and Greenland. Within the games are the Arctic Sports, a series of competitions that derive from Inuit culture and survival techniques that the Inuit needed to have when hunting or camping out on the ice for weeks on end.