The Ultima Thule

Journeys in America’s Northernmost Lands: a web anthology of the Alaskan Arctic

Unexpected Gifts in the Utukok

September 18th, 2010

Unexpected Gifts in the Utukok

| September 18, 2010

Cedric spends eight weeks in the Utokok Uplands looking for the Western Arctic Caribou Herd. But it is them who found him and so he had an experience he will never forget.

Angels in the Mist

| May 6, 2010

Angels in the Mist, by Jeff Fair. From Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge “The Wild Geese,” from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes.    Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear, in the ancient faith: what we [...]