Dispatches & Blogs

Out on the Greenland Icecap, landmarks are rare. Most days are made of subtler things: the sound of skis over snow, the weight of the sled, the shape of clouds, the work of melting snow into water, the quiet calculations of staying warm, fed, and moving. Then, after days of white space, DYE 2 rises out of the ice. It is a strange and unforgettable place — a human structure left standing in a landscape that seems almost beyond human scale. It feels less like arriving somewhere