The Polar Sea

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The Polar Sea begins in Reykjavik, Iceland. We meet the unlikely chronicler of our journey, Richard Tegnér, an ordinary Swedish man embarking on an extraordinary expedition. The search for the…

It is late July and the Northwest Passage is still choked with ice. In the small, gorgeous village of Ilulissat, Greenland, a motley collection of Arctic voyagers assembles to prepare for their…

Threading between the Diomedes islands – one American, the other Russian – our explorers finally exit the Bering Strait and complete the Northwest Passage. They sprint now toward the safety of the…