“I demand that neither hardship, suffering, privation, nor fear of death should move you by a hair’s breadth from carrying out your duties.”
— Inspector George French … Royal North-West Mounted Police
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“Growling like a mastiff”
“…on the opposite side of the ford was a large polar bear feasting on a beluga; we boldly took the ford thinking the bear would go away, but when halfway across, he lifted his head, placed his forepaws on the beluga, and uttering a loud growl, showed us such a set of teeth as made us turn up the stream, and for fifty yards wade up to our middle before we could cross, during this time the bear eyed us, growling like a mastiff dog.”
Narrative by David Thompson (b1770-d1857)
Reminder
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
— Vandana Shiva
“He knew better than anyone the darkness that hides behind the costume of a carefully manicured lawn.”
—John Cheeve
“There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
—Sara Henderson
An almost sacred thing…
“…(He) did not want to talk about the crash. He did not want to talk about his survival. He left some part of himself back in Alaska. It’s something he does not want to disturb or share. The wilderness can do that to people who face it alone. It becomes a private thing, an almost sacred thing.”
— Doug Beckstead from “81 Days Below Zero”
Photo credit: The University of Alaska Photo Archives
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