Life on the Ice

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To prepare for nearly three weeks of camping on Greenland’s ice sheet, the team flew in nearly 2,000 pounds of science gear, tents, computers, generators, and food (including lots of chocolate). “We are high-tech, well-equipped visitors to this desolate landscape, creating sleeping quarters, a communal kitchen, and research areas using only the materials we’ve brought,” wrote photographer Chris Linder in a dispatch on the Polar Discovery web site.

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