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“LOOK, MORE ICE,” said my son Vijay, his preteen sarcasm finely tuned. We were hiking in the otherworldly Ilulissat Icefjord, on the rugged western coast of Greenland, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004. As we reached a lookout point and watched colossal icebergs drifting on the water below, I had to laugh. Most travellers would meet this moment with hushed reverence, but my then-12-year-old’s wisecrack was right on the money.
It was one of many unexpectedly amusing moments on our 16-day cruise aboard the Fridtjof Nansen (nine-day trips from `3,13,888), a cutting-edge, 265-cabin ship operated by HX, as Hurtigruten Expeditions is now known. The round-trip itinerary began in Reykjavík, Iceland, took us across the Denmark Strait to the western…