Instead of spending your last summer vacation days in a place where you need a portable fan or umbrella, why not choose a colder, dare we say wintry locale to visit in summer? Skiing or hiking on an icy mountain in the months to come may seem absurd, but any of the following 5 places might be the perfect way to beat the heat while continuing to have the most thrilling summer vacation ever.

A roughly 2,000-square-mile block of ice just broke off in the Arctic Ocean.

A shipwreck has been discovered by archaeologists around 144 years after 33 whaling ships sank off the Arctic coast of Alaska, “one of the planet’s most unexplored ocean regions".

Climate change is speeding up the melting of the great sheet of ice covering Greenland, a frozen mass the size of Alaska that holds an estimated 10 percent of the world’s ice and scientists are sure of it, reports news and lifestyle magazine TakePart.

A Los Angeles doctor returning from her honeymoon ended up delivering a baby on an overseas flight when a fellow passenger went into early labor.

Thirty large whales have died in the western Gulf of Alaska since May, an unusually high number for the region, and scientists aren't sure what's causing the die-off.

Oil and gas giant Shell has been granted the final permit it needs to begin drilling below the ocean floor for oil in the Arctic.

The fossilized remains of an ancient marine reptile with an extremely long neck and paddlelike appendages have recently been uncovered in an unlikely place: the side of a cliff in Alaska, reports LiveScience.com.