The impressive Dempster Highway encompasses a 740-kilometer "gravel road" between the Klondike Highway and Inuvik and traverses The Yukon and the northwestern part of the Northwest Territories. You drive through two rugged mountain ranges, pass the Continental Divide several times and reach the magical Arctic Circle.
This truck is on its way along the Dempster Highway to the town of Innuvik, a small town , which was originally home to Eskimo peoples.
The shortest distance to the inhabited world is this Dempster Highway .
From the dust you can see that this road is 740 kilometers unpaved, which gives a lot of dust in dry periods, but when it rains a lot of mud.
The trucks on this route are huge and long.
Impressive machines thundering by.
For me it was a challenge to take this picture, so that the truck was coming towards me, but I was still not annoying or dangerous for the driver.
My name is Maria van Schayk, my hobby is photography. Macro photography is my specialty. The nice thing about this hobby is that you come to many unexpected places and look very differently at nature... Read more…