Challenge of the Ice: A Canoeing Adventure in the Wilderness of Northern Canada

This book is about a canoeing adventure in the far north wilderness of Canada and tells how the adventure was planned and executed. It describes how the canoeists worked their way seventy-five miles overland from the Thlewiaza River to the Seal River and then south on Hudson Bay to Churchill in a storm. The story tells of the many difficult portages on ice and snow, of running extreme rapids on near-freezing water, waterfalls, encounters with bears, and cold rainy days mixed with warm beaut...