{"id":420,"date":"2011-07-31T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T20:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2011-08-05T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T13:34:35","slug":"going-to-the-hudsons-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/2011\/07\/going-to-the-hudsons-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the Hudson’s Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Last Arctic Voyage<\/h3>\n

\u00a9 2011 Mark Seth Lender
\nAll Rights Reserved<\/p>\n

In 36 hours \u2013 less now \u2013 I will be leaving for the Arctic.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gained a new appreciation for my predecessors, Mackenzie, Bering, Franklin, Shackleton \u2013 they are many and not all of them faired well.\u00a0 The high latitudes are an unforgiving place even now in what passes for summer.\u00a0 If you fall into the water and do not drown, you will freeze.\u00a0 But my risks are slight compared to theirs and I am not likely to lose my fingers or parts of my face to frostbite.\u00a0 Not yet.\u00a0 If as planned I return in winter, there are cautions to be observed that are more severe.\u00a0 No matter:\u00a0 Unlike Nansen I will not freeze my ship into the ice or set out on foot with a single companion. As much planning as this has taken and as tired out as I am it is nothing compared to what was required to pack \u2013 everything \u2013 for a voyage lasting years.\u00a0 The men who were the first where the most brave.\u00a0 Bravest of them all were the Inuit who crossed into terra incognita in the true sense, into a land where no human being had ever been, cleaved to the thin ground at the breaking edge of ice towering a mile into the air, cleaving off with the force and roar of an exploding volcano, following the game, and beyond that having no idea what they would find or where they end up.<\/p>\n

Here is my only claim:\u00a0 These were the first.\u00a0 It is likely that I am among the last. The tundra is not just melting. It is burning.\u00a0 What more warning do we need?\u00a0 I am reminded of the spiritual, written by women and men who, though chained in slavery, knew the truth:<\/p>\n

God gave Noah
\nThe Rainbow sign,
\nWon\u2019t be the water but the Fire
\nNext Time.<\/p>\n

The bird in the photo above is a Great Egret. They stay here in New England later and later every year, this past winter well into November.\u00a0 Perhaps they know something we do not\u2026<\/p>\n

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