Forty Years on Ice: A Lifetime of Exploration and Research in the Polar Regions

Forty Years on Ice: A Lifetime of Exploration and Research in the Polar Regions

In the direction of Canada, a faint light suffused the sky with a band of orange on the horizon.

It was the beginning of the Arctic dawn - the sun was just 7 degrees below the horizon. Sunrise - the one and only sunrise of the year at this spot - would occur two and a half weeks after our visit.