How a doomed Arctic voyage presaged transpolar flights
Last month, I flew from Los Angeles to Hong Kong on one of those sleek jets that fuse heaven and…
Trekking through time and space across the Third Pole
Nearly five years ago, I wrote a post comparing the Arctic and Central Asia. Though at first glance the regions…
Kirovsk, the town at the end of the Soviet rainbow
Featured image: The once grand lobby of the abandoned train station in Kirovsk, Russia. Thousands of years ago on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, retreating glaciers shaved off the pointy peaks of…Continue Reading →