Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap Parent & Adult Child --Chrissy Downwind

--Chrissy Downwind

from his new foreword to Hana's Suitcase

leadership skills

reliving both the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers

a dazzling fellow with a bright shock of golden hair and brilliant white teeth who promises that he alone can solve their problems

Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap Parent & Adult Child --Chrissy DownwindBy 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed "Gino"), a twenty three year old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent