ABSTRACT
We drove through Churchill traveling east fifteen miles to the Churchill Northern Study Center, the former operations center for the old rocket range (a disbanded Cold War joint venture between the United States and Canada). We were at the center to watch a slide show presented by John Stetson, a dog breeder, of a trans-Antarctic expedition he participated in with fellow Minnesotan Will Steger, a polar adventurer and also a dog breeder. John feeds and shelters sixty-two Canadian Eskimo dogs. He claims to know each of them by their bark, though he stuttered through their names. John, who has the frigid zones in his bones, had traveled over 60,000 miles across polar ice by dogsled.
