There was a thick, condensed soup of chill fog swamping the Swalbard archipelago that day.
An iceberg floated out of the gloom unbeknown to the boat in search of the great white bears.
Far into the Arctic Ocean midway between the North Pole and that northern coast of Norway.
Sparsely populated Spitsbergen, old Arctic whaling station and polar expeditions base, not far away, where the constantly watchful Great Skua stares, ever seeking a fine filling cod fish-breakfast.
Three long days of blind man’s bluff, the thick fogs lift, the photographs of a lifetime emerge.
Breathtakingly poignant imagery, a window of witness to the beauty and fragility of our planet.
This a stunning portrait of a young polar bear stretched in a peaceful sleep adrift on an iceberg,
A remarkably sharp reminder of the vital connection between a creature and its habitat urge, be it floating ice mountain or Newtontoppen granite, and the dire impact of a climate warming blast.
A. McTiernan
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