Wild trip in Sweden leads to many rewards

Smoke billowed out of a hole in the middle of a grassy Indian lodge as I passed plates of cured deer sausage, flatbread, cheese and cloudberry jam to the seven alternative strangers gathered during this ancient Lapp range in Sweden’s northernmost Lapland region.

This was an entire digital detox: no electricity, cell signal or running water. Outside the conical dwelling (called a goathie within the endemic Lapp language), the ai....