In the latest instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise, the titular hero gets swept over a massive waterfall along with his companions. Amazingly, they survive the plunge unscathed. Dr. Jones doesn’t even lose his trademark hat in the river.
This summer while exploring an all but unknown river in the Hudson Bay watershed, I found out first-hand what it is like to be swept over a waterfall. Unlike in the Hollywood versions, it didn’t go quite as smoothly for me: I was a bit banged up, my canoe ...
Posted by James Raffan
on Friday, January 27, 2012
No ice here. Just a green, green, green, island and water from here to the pole. Yearly average temperature here ranges from just -5ºC to +9ºC. The sea never freezes. Gyda Birnisdöttir and her family live right on the Arctic Circle — or "Heimskautsbaugur” — on Grimsey, a tiny (5 sq. km) island in the Greenland Sea and the only part of Iceland that touches 66º33’ North. Visitors come to Grimsey by ferry from the mainland and by air (if the planes can find a space amongst the circling Arctic ...
