Overplanning kills the magic
Visiting Vancouver and here it is, right in front of me, Meet the North spirit. Listening is the key.
Shorts
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Nunavut mayor talks climate
A couple of the smiling faces who showed up to for Ottawa’s Climate March this weekend and listened to Clyde River Mayor Jerry Natanine speak on changing ice conditions and life in the Arctic. “I’ve never spoken to this many people,” Natanine said, but he was eloquent and clear for this audience of 25,000. These…
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Everybody should have a photographer
Photographers. #meetthenorth has been very fortunate in this department. Look at this face! (And how much he can eat.) Tips for working with Eric Guth. He needs (1) enough coffee (2) enough sleep (3) enough food – in that order. (I might be projecting on #3.) It starts with the outstanding photography rooted in story,…
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Embrace the unexpected
Well, maybe think twice before you actually embrace it. Depends on what it is. “Murder at the Coal Mine?” Longyearbyen, Svalbard. June 2015. Photo Eric Guth
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Giving thanks
It’s been six months since I boarded the first of many airplanes to explore the first of many communities for #meetthenorth. I’d recently been sponsored by Lindblad-Expeditions-National Geographic and joined their community of curious, engaged travelers. I was given a mission: travel the north, listen to its stories, and share. The work has just begun,…
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Meet the North, we’ve only just begun
Meet the North is a project about the lives of northerners from Svalbard to Greenland, Iceland, the Canadian Arctic, and beyond. We listen and learn from the four million people who call the top of the world their home; we believe that their stories are an essential and often forgotten part of a land that is…
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Welcome memories, Minni-Mástanga Farm, Iceland
Iceland memories: It was getting late at the Minni-Mástanga farmhouse. We’d spent the day driving sheep home from the oldest sheep pens in Iceland. We’d spent the evening sharing a meal with the whole family (parents, six kids, grandkids and more). The only person we didn’t really talk with was this guy, Vilhjálmur Guðmundsson, eldest…
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Ice Lagoon, Vatnajökull, Iceland
A jewel of the north. Ice from the Vatnajökull glacier that has made its way, over thousands of years, to rest on Iceland’s black sand. We are homeward bound. Photo Eric Guth
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Vatnajökull, Iceland
Just another roadside pull off where you can let the scenery blow your mind and expand your heart. We’ve been here two weeks now; we’re getting used to this kind of thing. (Oh, and just down the road you can see some cows . . . with a gigantic glacier in the background.) Photo Eric…
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The coast, Djúpivogur, Iceland
East Iceland, you are a beauty. We drove through Djúpivogur and kept going. I wandered the wetland to spy on a herd of swans, then we took off down a gravel runway until it ran out. Sometimes, the end of the road is the right place to be. Photo Eric Guth
