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Posted by Samia Madwar
on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Students try out their new face masks in a workshop on Greenlandic mask dancing
The Students on Ice Arctic expedition is over, we've made our sad farewells and are all returning to our daily routines. One thing I miss about being up North is our daily story time.
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, mother, student, writer, performer — and, incidentally, a fellow staff member on the expedition — shared Inuit stories with us every night that we were aboard the Akademik Ioffe. To fully appreciate our surroundings as we sailed north along the coast of Baffin Island and across Davis ...
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How’s this for a wake-up call: Belzebub got stuck in the ice. We’re back on the water now, but that little incident at Eternity fiord reminded us what a really high stakes game of uncharted sailing we are undertaking.
We’d been celebrating a milestone moment for our expedition: the crossing of the Arctic Circle. This “bowl” at N 66 32' contains over six million square miles of ocean, ice and land and has fascinated and challenged explorers and scientists alike for centuries. We’re seeing more ...
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A high pressure water hose known as a monitor is fired at the gravel banks to loosen up the gold and wash it down into the creek. The water pressure is so powerful that when the water hits the gravel 100 metres away it send rocks flying! It literally blasts the side of the hill away, revealing the gold.
The year was 1962. The sickness struck shortly after my mother bought me a book on the Klondike gold rush. I was 10 years old. The symptoms were subtle, but persistent and long-lasting. At first, my mother thought it comical, then refused to call a doctor and finally said, “You’ll get over it.”
She was wrong.
My disease? “Klondicitis.”
In 1897-8 it swept the world, infecting up to a million people. The effects proved immediate. People started digging holes everywhere, even in city streets. ...
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People often remark that it’s ironic the only mountain left unsummitted in the Yukon’s Centennial Range is Mount Saskatchewan.
But that’s why Jeff Dmytrowich, Wren Rabut, Sam Unger and I — all of us from the flat lands of Saskatoon — were set on being the first to reach it.
We're not the first to try. Since 1967, three teams have attempted to summit Mount Saskatchewan, which is around 2,500 metres shy of Canada’s highest peak. So with a nod to our predecessors, we decided to start our ...
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Big Blue, a 17-foot wood-canvas prospector made by Headwaters Canoes in Wakefield, Que. After some repairs, it's ready for the dance.
My two old canoes are works of art, embodying the feeling of all canoemen for rivers and lakes and the wild country they were meant to traverse. They were made in the old tradition when there was time and the love of the work itself ... When l look at modern canoes, of metal or fiberglass stamped out like so many identical coins, l cherish mine even more … Sixteen feet in length, it has graceful lines with a tumble home or curve from the gunwales inward … No other canoe I’ve ever used paddles as ...
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