On THIN ICE

摘要

In the spring of 1987, Inuit hunter Theo Ikummaq made a three-month journey by dogsled from the west coast of Baffin Island to Qaanaaq in Greenland-the same journey that his ancestors made during a 19th century migration. "I could not make that same journey now," he says. "To cross safely from Canada to Greenland, you would have to go much farther north. The trip would also take much longer, as there are many more open leads and the ice is much more unpredictable."