Word: nahanni
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...these tantalizing words the late Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan), novelist and onetime Governor General of Canada, pictured the "Headless Valley" on the remote South Nahanni River. Behind Buchan's lines lay 40 years of mystery, yet little has been done to explore the fantastic legends that came from the 200-mile gorge in the limestone mountains, 300 miles east of Whitehorse, Yukon. Last week Nahanni was back in the news again. A group of amateur explorers was preparing to go over it from one end to the other...
Northern Eden? Nahanni is Indian for "people over there, far away." The Indians shun the place for its mammoth grizzlies and the evil spirits wailing in its deep canyons. Of the hunters and prospectors who have gone in, 13 have not returned. Around them most of the tall tales have sprung...
...George G. Goodwin, assistant curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, after a grueling specimen-hunting expedition which set a record for distance covered in northwest Canada-7,000 miles by plane, pack horse, pack dog, flat-bottomed boat, legwork. The party risked drowning in the Nahanni River. A storm almost blew their plane into Great Slave Lake. Mr. Goodwin was almost eaten by black flies, bulldog flies, midges and mosquitoes while from a blind he filmed giant, sharp-humped wood buffalo wallowing in the dust at a water-hole. Stampeding musk oxen almost ran down...