Chosen frozen

Somebody finally took the time to record a modern video of what it’s like in Alert, Nunavut, at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island. I spent 6 months there in full daylight (at first), partial daylight for a few weeks, and then full darkness. There’s a point in the video (1:41) where they show what it was like on the first day the sun came above the horizon in the spring. I remember that sky so well, because that’s the day I left to come back home. In fact, if you imagine that part of the clip as a stitched together time lapse of what the noon hour looks like in Alert, the transition from black to the sun peeking over the horizon is what the lapse would have been like from late December to early March. At noon.

Great video. There have been a few changes since I was there. They have the internet now. And gaming computers - what!!??