Photos capture Arctic beauty before it is too late

Arctic Life, a photo exhibition currently presented in Beijing, gives a glimpse of the cold, mysterious landscape and the residents of the Arctic Circle to the outside world.

Photographer Wang Jiannan, 63, who has visited some of the coldest places on the Earth 17 times in the past eight years, chose 423 photos from more than 30,000 pictures he took for the exhibition. They range from the daily lives of the indigenous people to the Arctic's unique plants and animals.

"I want to show a real Arctic, a place full of life, which people have never seen before," says Wang, who started his Arctic adventure in 2005.