The hut stands at the foot of a near vertical wall of rock in an icy fjord in the high arctic , a week away by dog sled from the nearest human settlement .
For the first time , uk sport was able to build on research and innovation successes from olympic projects - including the british cycling team 's 2008 and 2012 equipment and amy williams ' vancouver sled design , ' says uk sport 's alison macpherson .
Stay in town at the cozy , trading-post-style lazy bear lodge ( and hop a sled dog ride next door at wapusk general store ) , or bunk among the bears in the bare-bones tundra buggy lodge at polar bear point .