About us
Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich, the author of 13 books of fiction and nonfiction, and recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and NEA and NEH grants, has traveled by dogsled since 1993 in northwestern Greenland with subsistence Inuit hunters.
In January 2006, National Geographic Magazine published the results of a winter/summer expedition in Greenland. This Cold Heaven, a book about Inuit culture and her travels by dogsled, was published by Pantheon in 2001, followed by The Future of Ice, an ode to the end of the season of winter as we know it, and a warning about the dire consequences of human-caused climate change.
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About the Project
The participants in the year-long Ukiivik Expedition, sponsored by the National Geographic Expeditions Council, will travel across Arctic Alaska, Nunavut, Greenland, Sapmi (Lapland), as well as western and eastern Siberia. A book, Farthest North: The End of Ice will be published by National Geographic.
Throughout the year this website will be regularly updated by satelite phone from the field. In addition there will be frequent updates broadcast on NPR’S Morning Edition, monthly updates in National Geographic Magazine, a major article in the magazine, National Geographic Adventure, a show of photographs and indigenous art at NGS, and a documentary film.
