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Since 1984, our Yellowknife-based magazine has chronicled northern travel, culture, nature, and arts from across the territories with award-winning writing and spectacular photography. Below you’ll find our past issues. Click on any to see all the online articles from that particular magazine. If you’d like to subscribe to the print edition click here.

Latest Issue

2024-JanFeb-Cover

Up Here Magazine celebrates 40 years of publication by reflecting on the past and looking to the future.

Past Issues

November 2016 cover

Our annual mining issue features some colourful characters from the North's biggest industry, as well as a run-down of what's happening in and on the ground up here.

October 2016 cover

Get a look at the latest fashions North of 60. Designers are combining their traditional craft with new looks to create something completely different.

August/September 2016 cover

Our special Aviation Issue chronicles pioneering pilots in rickety bush planes in the 1920s, through the post-WWII heyday that saw the Arctic wilds open up to robust de Havilland bush planes, all the way to the airlines and jets of the present day.

July 2016 cover

In our July issue, we take on the wildlife of the North.

June 2016 cover

Bring your appetite as we explore all the ways we eat: from raw whale blubber in Nunavut, to raw oysters in downtown Whitehorse.

May 2016 cover

In this issue we look outside our borders, to the Northern nations and states that share our latitude.

April 2016 cover

One thing the North has in abundance is water. In this issue, we explore the ways Northerners use this precious resource: from canoeing, kayaking and even stand-up paddleboarding, to fishing and hydroelectric power.

March 2016 cover

In our Great Northern Sports Issue, we go back more than 100 years to find whalers on a remote Beaufort Sea outpost playing a unique version of baseball, dive into ice-cold Yukon River water, and break a sweat with our definitive Northern workout guide.

February 2016 cover

Sit down with Canada’s leading polar bear scientist, Ian Stirling, as he dishes on the likely decline of our iconic animal.

January 2016 cover

In our first issue of 2016, we welcome Nick Sibbeston into our new “Icebreaker” section, as the fiery NWT senator talks about pounding the table in the politics of a bygone era.