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Arctic
Crossing
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The Quotable Climber
A Most Hostile Mountain
Kayaking the Vermilion Sea
Cloud Dancers
In the Shadow of Denali
High Alaska
Surviving Denali
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Meeting a polar bear--known
to northern Inuit as TyrnCrssuk (The One Who Gives
Power)--became more important to me than anything
else. She senses that I am no threat. Ice water pours
off her glossy fur like rain from a roof. Since I
have never been this close to a wild polar bear, I
am amazed to see that she holds her torpedo-like head
a couple feet out from her body with a long neck--the
effect is remarkably like that of a Swan preparing
to fly. Then she changes her mind and sits back on
her haunches, sufficiently cooled off from her swim
to appraise me, a mere boy ending his vision quest.
She lofts her jet-black muzzle to reach across the
seawater and smell me.
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