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The winter dark

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In 1903 Knud Rasmussen was experiencing his first taste of life in the far north of Greenland, a winter adventure that would change his life and draw him back to the Inughuit — the Polar Inuit — time and time again.
One fall day, on his way back to the hut that expedition members had built and in which they would pass the winter, he happened upon an old woman who stopped him and pointed out over a calm sea to a black bank of fog that shrouded the horizon.
“Out there over the sea,” she said dole

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