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Ferry-hopping up Alaska's panhandle
| Posted on: Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
Category: Cultures |
Buckwheat, who earned his nickname in seventh grade, drove his pick-up alongside the wide, ankle-deep Skagway River then crossed railroad tracks to reach the Gold Rush Cemetery. Wooden grave markers were dotted among birch and cottonwood trees: Chadwick Biggs, Hasel Achison, Unknown - plenty of Unknowns.
In search of the snow leopard
| Posted on: Friday, February 12, 2010 |
Category: Cultures |
She wasn't visible at first. Then she moved, rippling silently down a gully of rocks and padding straight up to us. This was Uncia uncia, the snow leopard, one of the most endangered species on earth, and one of the most beautiful.
Arctic wilderness under threat
| Posted on: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
Category: Cultures |
In the autumn of 1921 a Norwegian trapper called Georg Nilsen went polar bear hunting on the island of Spitsbergen, high in the Arctic Circle. He promised he would be back for Christmas, but he was never seen alive again.
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