On thin ice

We head to the north of Alaska to put the Z 6 Filmmaker’s Kit through its paces for a new global warming documentary

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In 2001, when I first visited George Divoky on Cooper Island, which is a deserted barrier island off the northern tip of Alaska, it was a forbidding journey into a frigid world of ice and snow. It was June and the Beaufort Sea was frozen, but just beginning its summer thaw. This made it too dicey for snow machine transit. I had to strap my gear to the pontoons of a small, two-man chopper and be flown by an irascible lug of a pilot to this outpost on the edge of the world to shoot the cover for the New York Times [1]