High latitudes
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July 30, 2009Ice: CubedIce, we'd discovered, is cold, hard, dangerous-and exhausting. "Herb's Watch" for our August 6, 2009 CWReckonings
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December 10, 2008Breaking the IceAboard Roger Henry, Alvah and Diana Simon are hunkering down for the winter at a marina in Seward, Alaska. "The Roger Henry File" or December 10, 2008
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March 28, 2007North, Again, to the NightEditor at large Herb McCormick checks in with Alvah and Dinah Simon, who are days away from a three-year voyage to Siberia and beyond. From our March 28, 2007, CW Reckonings.
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March 1, 2013Northern Light Explores AntarcticaDeborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke explore the island around Antarctica in their series, Pearls Around the White Contenent. Check out the astonishing photographs from their trip.
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May 20, 2010Pearls Around the White Continent Part III: Intruders in the Realm of the Sea LionsIn this installment, documentary filmmakers Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke continue their 22,500-nautical-mile circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean. Sailing the 40-foot steel ketch Northern Light in the Roaring 40s, Furious 50s, and Screaming 60s, Deborah and Rolf explore the beautiful and far-flung subantarctic islands strung like pearls around the bottom of our planet. Click here for previous installments.
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February 14, 2013Northwest Passage Routes Made PassableWith the retreat of Arctic ice, boat traffic in the Northwest Passage is rising.
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March 2, 2010Ice CapadesWith the ultimate outcome very much in doubt, the 64-foot cutter Ocean Watch embarks on an eastward attempt to transit an icy, dicey Northwest Passage. A feature from our January 2010 issue
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January 9, 2013Day 78: Toward AND AROUND(!) Cape Horn!On Monday, January 7, intredpid solo-sailor Jeanne Socrates rounded Cape Horn during her third attempt at a non-stop, unassisted circumnavigation beneath the five Great Capes. And, oh yeah, she's 70 years old.
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June 4, 2008Biding a While at Baffin IslandOn an Oyster 72 built to explore the remote parts of the world, a crew finds that Canada's arctic is a wild place. "Yacht Style" from our May 2008 issue.
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February 3, 2011Pearls Around the White Continent Part V: A Natural WonderIn the final months of their four-year circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean, Northern Light’s crew explores South Georgia, its astonishing wildlife, and the shrieking winds twisted and turned by island topography.
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