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Circus North Pole – Resolute Bay’s Annual Silly Season
Up Here Magazine, January 2012 Hogan Beernaert would cry, but when tears well up in his eyes, his lashes become coated in a furry mascara of ice. “So cold,” he mumbles, steam puffing from his frost-fringed lips. When Beernaert was … Continue reading →
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Last Stop Before the Pole – Welcome to Resolute, home (for a few frigid days each year) to some of the most ambitious (read: hard-core) adventurers on the planet
explore magazine, Winter 2012 It’s February 25, 2012, and I’m on a 40-passenger First Air turbo-prop heading as far north as commercial aircraft will take you in Canada—to Resolute Bay, on Nunavut’s Cornwallis Island, near the southern tip of Ellesmere … Continue reading →
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Tagged arctic, Aziz Kheraj, Barneo, Bjorn Moa, Cape Discovery, Colonel Anand Swaroop, Dr. Clare O'leary, Grand slam, Iqaluit, Ivar Hoel, Kenn Borek, Matty McNair, Mike O'Shea, North Pole, Norwegians, nunavut, polar bears, Polar Continental Shelf, Resolute, Richard Webber, Roald Amundsen, South Camp Inn, Svante Strand, Yasunaga Ogita
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Two Siblings, Two Sails and 3,000 Kilometres Across the Northwest Passage
Up Here Magazine, May 2012 Like technicolour Arctic butterflies against a deep blue April sky, six kites soar across the flat white landscape of Victoria Island. Behind them they tow skiers, zigzagging and whooping in the spring sunshine as the … Continue reading →
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Tagged brother, Cambridge Bay, Ellesmere Island, Eric McNair-Landry, Gjoa Haven, Gobi Desert, Greenland Ice Cap, Igloolik, Inuit, Iqaluit, kite-ski, kite-skiing, Lee Narraway, Matty McNair, National Geographic, North Pole, Northwest Passage, nunavut, NWT, Ozone Snowkites, Paul Landry, polar bear, Pond Inlet, Resolute Bay, Richard Weber, Roald Amundsen, Sarah McNair-Landry, sister, tundra, Will Steger
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