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Jostrom comes from Kalispell, Mont., an idyllic ski-resort town only half an hour from Glacier National Park. The small town of 12,000 people has little discernable music scene...
...DEGREES NORTH (Norway) Contestants race from Norway to the Arctic Circle. In extreme conditions. On foot. One trekker is voted off the glacier every two days...
...exile him for three years, so Erik sailed west to explore a land he had heard about from sailors who had been blown off course. Making his way around a desolate coast, he came upon magnificent fjords flanked by lush meadows and forests of dwarf willow and birch, with glacier-strewn mountain ranges towering in the distance. This "green land," he decided (in what might have been a clever bit of salesmanship), would be a perfect place to live. In 985 Erik returned triumphantly to Iceland and enlisted a group of followers to help him establish the first Norse outposts...
...left 22 to hunker down there, and with a crew of five, set out in a 20-foot open boat across 850 miles of the worst seas in the world. He made it to the remote South Atlantic island of South Georgia, then climbed across a mountain and glacier to fetch help at a whaling station. All of the expedition's men were rescued...
...have before us the ghastly example of Diana's death and the mawkish excesses that followed.) But maybe we are merely in the presence of outrageous fortune. To my mind, standing on this beach, the Kennedys' accumulation of dooms seems as inarticulate as the boulders that the glacier left...