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Succumbing to an Arctic addiction is easy, especially when you’re as heat averse as I am. Years ago, I traveled north to Iceland. Then I headed to Greenland, finding my way above the Arctic Circle in 2008.
Venturing north on eight separate occasions, I’ve witnessed wonderful glaciers in Iceland retreat hundreds of meters over the years. Each was crawling backward, bit by bit, revealing a rubble- strewn dry bed beneath what once was a thick covering of ancient ice.
In February 2019—summer in the Southern Hemisphere—I hit the road again. After 22 hours in the air, I had a day’s layover in Punta Arenas, the capital city of Chile's southernmost region. From there, it was another two-hour flight to King George Island and Frei Station, near the tip of the Antarctica Peninsula.
48 THE HUNT MAGAZINE summer 2020
