The Route
1) Arctic Coast of Alaska - January 2007
View on Google Maps: Wales / Shishmaref / Kivalina / Point Hope
The journey begins on the Arctic coast of Alaska where retreating sea ice has caused severe coastal erosion to occur. The villages of Shishmaref, Kivalina, and Wales are eroding away. Accompanied by a renowned Alaskan artist, Joe Sennungetuk, a native of Wales, Alaska, we will stay in his home village, then travel to nearby communities to see and hear how the climate crisis is effecting their subsistence lives and rich cultural traditions.
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2) Sápmi - February 2007
In February we journey to Sápmi, Northern Norway and Sweden, home of the Saami people, once known as Laplanders. These are reindeer herders with a vibrant spiritual life. Winter is story-telling time. We will participate in winter celebrations and hear how climate change is affecting flora and fauna of northern Scandinavia. From Copenhagen, we’ll travel north to Greenland to greet the sun, a place where it has been dark since October.
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3) North-West Coast of Greenland - March 2007
View on Google Earth: Etah (Latitude 78.3167 Longitude -72.6333)
We will go on a month long walrus hunting trip with four of Greenland’s best hunters with 57 dogs pulling four freight sleds across dangerous ice between Etah and Moriusak, on the North-west coast of Greenland.
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4) Western Siberia - April 2007
Accompanied by Russian ethnographer Andrei Volkov, we travel on foot with the Nenet people and their reindeer in capricious spring weather from the Arkhangels region on the Kanin Peninsula all the way to the White Sea.
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5) Barrow to Pond Inlet, Nunavut - June/July 2007
View on Google Maps: Barrow
Traveling by private fixed wing aircraft designed for aerial photography, we will fly from Barrow, Alaska all the way across the polar north, following the northwest passage which was, in fact, the migration route for Inuit hunters as they moved from Siberia to Greenland thousands of years ago.
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6) Chukotka, North-Eastern Siberia - September 2007
Traveling again with Andrei Volkov, we will live with coastal marine mammal hunters near Provideniya and Lavrenty, then travel inland and to stay with reindeer herders.
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7) Qaanaaq, Greenland - October 2007
The sun goes down for the last time for four months on October 24th at Latitude 79 N. We will travel with subsistence hunters by dogsled on the ice as they look for walrus. Will ice still be thick enough to travel on when the sun returns in February? Will they have enough food for both dogs and families?
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