Vast expanses of windswept, rolling tundra stretch to the horizon, the landscape rendered in muted shades of gray, white and ice blue. Snow and frozen permafrost blanket the undulating plains, pockmarked only by rocky outcroppings and scattered lichen-encrusted boulders. Dense drifts of snow swirl in frozen waves, sculpted by the ceaseless arctic winds. In the distance, the craggy, jagged peaks of an ancient mountain range cleave the sky with their sheer granite walls. In the perpetual twilight of the polar night, the celestial kaleidoscope of the aurora borealis dances in shimmering curtains of emerald and violet across the glittering arctic sky. Silhouetted against this ghostly panorama, a lone polar bear shuffles across the frozen tundra in search of its next meal.