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The Rescue That Went Wrong
On an icy October morning, two Igloolik hunters set out in their boat, looking for walruses. What happened next was part horror story, part miracle: One of the most difficult - and ultimately deadly - life-saving efforts in Arctic history.
'If it's explorer season, why can't we shoot them?'
Welcome to Resolute, where, every winter, flocks of obsessive and frostbite-scarred North Pole trekkers launch their conquests of the Arctic – while weary townsfolk roll their eyes.
'In the Name of God, Please Come Back!'
Fifty years ago, a pilot spotted an arrow stamped into the snow near the B.C.-Yukon border. He had no idea where it would lead.
Helen Klaben was near death when she was rescued in 1963. She and Ralph Flores had survived a plane crash and six hungry, cold weeks in the bush. Courtesy Charles Hamilton
The Myth of the Arctic Man-Eater?
Polar bears are less fearsome than we think, says biologist Stephen Smith. And he should know: He’s squared off with them, eye to eye…
Photo courtesy Stephen Smith
When Booze Ran Dry in the Klondike
In the tipsy Yukon, prohibition was a buzzkill. Would bush planes full of liquor quench their thirst?
Long before the U.S. temperance movement put a cork in Klondike liquor, Yukoners loved their 'hooch.' Here, Dawson ladies hold a 'drinking bee' in 1900. Joseph Duclos/Dawson City Museum
The One Who Jumped
A young man, depressed, desperate. In the North, it's too common. But the death of Julian Tologanak-Labrie was anything but.
