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...Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and he leads adventure--natural history tours to remote areas of North America. This past November he went to Churchill, on the Hudson Bay in Canada, to take 14 souls to see polar bears. Last year he led a 500-mile canoe trip down the Yukon...
...wouldn't have it any other way. "It's great to get people out in the middle of the wilderness," he says, his enthusiasm palpable and contagious. "We live on such a great continent, and people don't realize what's out there." His favorite spots include the Yukon, Alaska, Newfoundland and Ontario, all spectacular, freezing and grand: "To be one of the 5% of the human population fortunate enough to live on this continent is just a blessing in itself...
...life would include spending lots of time in British Columbia, taking groups of kids hiking and canoeing, a practice he got into after setting up zoos and teaching nature at summer camps in the Catskills. "Then it occurred to me, after putting a whole load of canoes on the Yukon River and tying them up and giving a reading of Jack London's To Build a Fire, which is a wonderful short story, while we were drifting past Dawson, which is the start of the great gold rush, and looking up and seeing two kids with headphones listening to Metallica...
...coast of Cyprus. Sarmast says sonar scans taken earlier this month show man-made structures on the seabed, and that the area matches many of the details of the site given by Plato. OCTOBER Maverick Russian astrophysicist Alexander Chechelnitsky asserted that the lost continent was situated in Alaska's Yukon River valley, and that the change in the earth's axis - and the repositioning of the North Pole - brought about its cataclysmic end. Refreshingly undogmatic for an Atlantis hunter, he is quoted as saying: "I don't have any concrete scientific proof for my theory. But I believe...
...those who find the spectacle of Bill Geist at a seniors stripper convention too sensational, the show closes with a cool-down: the Nature Endpiece, a minute of wildlife footage - whooping cranes or wild rabbits or the Yukon moose - with no music or narration, just the rush of wind or water and the occasional bird call or bleat. (If the National Geographic Channel had videos, these would be in the top 40.) Having mellowed us out, Osgood signs off with a subtle plug for his daily commentary: ?I?ll see you on the radio...