Chasing the Aurora to Tuktoyaktuk - Yuichi Takasaka’s Arctic Ocean Time-Lapse

An astro photographer’s childhood dream meets the edge of the Arctic Ocean. Join Yuichi Takasaka as he hunts the northern lights from Vancouver to the Beaufort Sea, chasing a shot he’s imagined since he was a kid. Across the Dempster Highway and into single-digit daylight at midnight, Yuichi battles -40 windchill, a dead engine that needs a jump, and clouds that refuse to part. Along the way: the eerie Five Finger Rapids at the heart of Gold Rush lore, an initiation at Dawson City’s Sour Toe Cocktail Club, reindeer thundering over the Mackenzie River ice road, and a quiet night beneath Inuvik’s Igloo Church. An Inuit elder, Lillian Elias, shares meanings behind the aurora’s colors, while a tale of the Lost Patrol lingers over the snowbound route. Then, on the frozen shore at Tuktoyaktuk, the sky finally answers. Want to feel the aurora sweep from horizon to horizon and see how time-lapse reveals what the eye can’t? Watch to the end for the moment Yuichi’s Arctic vision becomes real. #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #YuichiTakasaka #Yukon #DempsterHighway #Inuvik #Tuktoyaktuk #Astrophotography