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Ha ha!! Which pole? North or south?
I’m writing these days, which means reading too. From Wade Davis: “… the myriad of cultures of the world are not failed attempts at modernity, let alone failed attempts to be us. They are unique expressions of the human imagination and heart, unique answers to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human…
Down at the bottom of the world, we would never survive without her. A home away from home in Antarctic waters. Photo Eric Guth
“We will fall completely in love with the Earth,” says Thich Nhat Hanh. “When we are in love with someone or something, there is no separation between ourselves and the person or thing that we love. We do whatever we can for them and this brings us great joy and nourishment. That is the relationship…
Today, National Geographic turns 130; as a National Geographic Explorer I’m proud to celebrate! The National Geographic Society funded my work in Russia’s Far East this past fall, and I had the privilege of interviewing dozens of people to learn about modern Arctic culture in one of the north’s least known regions. For many of…
Oomph. Photo by Eric Guth
I started writing again today . “Maybe I can’t see the big picture and maybe that’s okay; the world doesn’t occur for me that way. I see it all through a maze of details: two rusty wrenches to weight a jigging line, a Q-tip carving lines through a drum dancer’s make-up, the slurping of a…
Cleaning and culling my Arctic library in prep for some big time writing time this winter. ‘Arctic Dreams’ is so tattered! Get a new copy or keep this one? (It has traveled in a backpack across the tundra but is so broken now it is hard to read. Dilemma.) These uppik will keep me company…
This year … A narwhal blessing in Nunavut An icy dreamscape in Antarctica Our arrival to the herders of Chukotka, Russia Life on board the National Geographic Explorer And life amidst Russian caribou Afternoons exploring West Greenland’s ice Our first publication with National Geographic A curious polar bear Eric Guth’s beautiful work amongst the ice…