The Yukon is as mysterious as it is beautiful. Larger than California and covering more area than Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands combined, only about 36,000 people inhabit Canada’s westernmost territory.Jack London was here. So were the likes of Robert Service, Pierre Berton and Robert Kennedy, who became the first person to climb the 4,172-metre high Canadian mountain named after his brother, John. F. Kennedy – despite having no prior experience in mountaineering.Read more here: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/What+with+hours+darkness/9174342/story.html