India, Sept. 23 -- Travel is evolving. It is no longer about reaching a destination, living in lavish resorts, or visiting a pristine island; now it is about something much rarer - access. The modern elite traveller wants to have experiences that are much more rooted, and that is the journey world travellers and entrepreneurs Savi and Vidit, also known as Bruised Passports, undertook in the last week of August this year - they travelled to the geographic North Pole.

After travelling to 119 countries, the couple saved up to undertake an expedition to the North Pole this year, beginning in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, then continuing through Spitsbergen and the sea ice to the geographic North Pole at 90deg North, before returning through differ...