http://www.point-hope.com A Circumpolar Journey in the International Polar Year 2007-2008 Mon, 19 May 2008 19:51:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Greenland after the blizzard http://www.point-hope.com/archives/82 By dogsled to Siorapaluk, the northernmost subsistence village in the world. Population: between 50 and 62. A dog team travels about 10 km per hour. It should take 6 hours to get there, but the snow is wet and the ice under it is mushy. Still, it’s good to be ... http://www.point-hope.com/archives/35 Last week Gedeon and a friend were out on the ice when an unexpected blizzard hit. The ice all around him broke up, and soon he and his dogsled were adrift. He leapt when the ice under his sled began to break up; his hunting companion to leapt to another. ... http://www.point-hope.com/archives/34 http://www.point-hope.com/archives/90 The once-a-week flight from Ilulissat to Qaanaaq finally leaves. As we fly north over the Nussuuaq Peninsula what I see shocks me: beyond narrow aprons of shorefast ice, wide leads open between rotting panes of gray pancake ice, and splinters into strands like hair. Icebergs wallow in moats, their edges ... http://www.point-hope.com/archives/33 http://www.point-hope.com/archives/114 Starting on tour again - Carsten Peter and Hans Jense in Greenland. Sunset over Qaanaaq. Carsten Peter and Hans Jense. Carsten Peter returning to Qaanaaq. http://www.point-hope.com/archives/78 We rise above the Danish gloom and enter sunlight. It is a winter sun, cold and low in the sky. Perhaps the term, climate change, should be changed to climate care, since it is carelessness that is bringing so much of life on this planet to an end. The coast of ... http://www.point-hope.com/archives/32 http://www.point-hope.com/archives/122 Greenland again. What was once an icy paradise that kept luring me back is now a world of ruined ice. I’ve come to witness the demise of the great ice-age hunters of northwestern Greenland. My book, THIS COLD HEAVEN, was a celebration of these people who travel by dogsled and ... http://www.point-hope.com/archives/31