Drive nearly 500 kilometers at night on winter roads through Canada’s Rocky Mountains? Not a problem, says Paul Zizka. He will drop anything at anytime and head out the door of his home in Banff, Alberta, to go hunting—and don’t expect him back before 5 A.M. What is his quarry? The aurora borealis, or northern lights: one of the most magnificent natural phenomena imaginable. “If you’ve seen the aurora,” he says, “you know why. It’s something you never forget.”
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