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Monthly Archives: December 2011
72 teenagers, 40 educators, 1 ship and two weeks from Iceland to Greenland and Northern Labrador
“The Childrens’ Crusade,” Up Here magazine, December 2011. “There’s been a change of plans,” expedition leader Geoff Green announces as he leaps onto our bus. “The president of Iceland has invited us to his house.” Our tour of the geothermal … Continue reading →
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Tagged Antarctica, arctic, Arctic Quebec, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, climate change, Clipper Adventurer, Diz Glithero, Drift Bottle Drop, education, environment, expeditions, First Air, Geoff Green, green, Greenland, Iceland, Inuit, Labrador, learning, nunavut, outdoor classroom, Prince of Monaco, Richard Sears, SOI, Students on Ice, teenagers, Torngat Mountains National Park, World Wildlife Fund
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So you think you want to go to the North Pole? First, learn from the Alpha Bitch.
“Lessons From the Alpha Bitch”, Explore magazine, Winter 2008. Dangling my legs off a six-foot-thick ice floe, I slide into slushy water. The “swimsuit” I’m modelling is no polkadot bikini, but a screaming-red, one-piece number I’ve slipped over half a … Continue reading →
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Tagged adventure, alpha bitch, Antarctica, arctic, Baffin Island, dog sledding, expedition, Frobisher Bay, frost bite, Harvest Foodworks, Inuit, Iqaluit, Matty McNair, North Pole, Northwinds, nunavut, Outward Bound, Paul Landry, polar training, polar travel, polynya, Robert Peary, South Pole, thin ice, Tom Avery, Ward Hunt
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