A drive here from Belgrade, Serbia's capital, revealed an eerie, other-worldly place, full of blood and blood oaths, of houses licked by flame and others painted with Serbian slogans and symbols to protect them from the fiery fate of Albanian properties.
The polar regions are truly other-worldly places - aside from their alien beauty, they are extreme and unforgiving, and some of the most challenging places on earth for a film crew to operate.