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From Ellesmere, an island 500 miles from the North Pole, scientist David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg bring back the first intimate images of wolves at home and on the hunt...
Ellesmere, a Canadian island just 500 miles south of the North Pole, is a beautiful but forbidding world where the summer sun is candlelight soft and few living things can survive. It is also one of the last places on earth where the wolf roams unthreatened by man. In 1986 two men, biologist L. David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg, set out for Ellesmere to do what no one had ever done: live with a wild-wolf pack. Achieving all they had hoped for and more, Mech and Brandenburg managed to set up camp next to a wolf...
Baseball: Where is the coldest place on earth? The North Pole? The South Pole? Princeton's Baker Rink? The Yale Bowl during The Game...
American children are apt to know two things about the North Pole. First, Santa Claus lives there. Second, Admiral Robert E. Peary was the first person to get there, on April 6, 1909. Evidently these two lessons could be equally elaborate fictions. Geographers have concluded that Peary probably missed the Pole. Now Peary's handwritten notes of sextant readings, compass bearings and the sun's altitudes have surfaced. They indicate that the explorer himself knew he was no closer than 105 nautical miles away, according to Baltimore astronomer-historian Dennis Rawlins. The jottings, found in an envelope dated April...
...authorities agree with this interpretation, however, since the readings may have been taken at a different time. "Peary may not have reached the North Pole," said Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, which funded the Peary expedition, "but nothing in the document suggests he was a fake...