More from Yakutia: the Lena Pillars of the mighty Lena river. Look at any map of Russia and you can see the Lena. She is powerful. I had been wanting to visit these banks ever since I started looking at maps and planning canoe trips. In the end, I arrived in a van that Yakutians…
Giving thanks for all we have received on this journey. Gifts from the land. The generosity of strangers. Enduring friendships born of unlikely circumstances. Here, the community of Pond Inlet prepares caribou, walrus, narwhal, and arctic char for a community feast. May there be feasts of many kinds! #meetthenorth #thanksgiving #americanthanksgiving #feast #nunavut #nunavummiut #lifeupnorth…
Small boats come and go all day and night from the harbour in Ilulissat. Fishermen often head out on their own, sometimes to set the lines, sometimes to pull them in. Any given morning there will be a couple of dozen men sitting at the dock and baiting their hooks, 500 at a time. It…
What do you wear to get outside? Hunter Jeremiah Awa shows us his kit: a mix of homemade and store bought. These layers kept him warm during a two week hunting trip for caribou to share with his community. The homemade parka and seal mittens are very warm, but still . . . this is…