High latitudes
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March 1, 2013Pearls Around the White Continent Part IV: Home, Sweet HomeIn Part IV of this five-part series, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, on board their 40-foot steel ketch, Northern Light, return to places on the Antarctic Peninsula that they first visited in 1984. Their pleasure turns to dismay, however, when they become witnesses to the profound affects brought to the region by climate change. Click here for previous installments.
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March 17, 2010Around the America's: Ocean Watch on a Voyage of DiscoveryA collection of feature stories and photos from Herb's Around the America's voyage.
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January 23, 2013Shackleton Epic to Depart From Elephant Island on January 23rdExpedition honoring the centenary of the “Greatest Survival Story” is due to commence in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean at 2100 GMT/UTC on 23 January.
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April 15, 2009Pearls Around the White ContinentWith plans in the works to send a couple to Mars, the BBC turned to high-latitude adventurers and CW contributing authors Deborah Shapiro and Rolfe Bjelke to hear how they cope as a couple during long periods of isolation. You can revisit their adventures circumnavigating Antarctica aboard their ketch Northern Light in this riveting five-part series.
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January 10, 2012Matt Rutherford Rounds Cape HornThe solo sailor has passed another landmark on his non-stop journey around the Americas aboard a 27-foot Albin Vega.
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January 11, 2011Pearls Around the White Continent SeriesDeborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke have been traveling around Antartica and sharing their adventures as a series published in CW. Here's the collection of stories.
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November 9, 2010Where Might & Majesty MeetA cruising couple sailing the North Pacific arrives in Alaska to discover that where there's smoke, there's desire. A feature from our November 2010 issue
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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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