Dehradun, March 2 -- On a rope and a prayer - looking into the ice crevice

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

After signing the necessary declarations, we started our long trek from the tundra coast of Greenland to the Ice cap or the ice biome of the largest island in the world - and this ice cap was at an elevation of around 300 meters from mean sea level. The wind continued to blast from the previous day since there were no trees anywhere. Nothing to break the wind and the good part of this was that while it was making our trek slower, it was keeping the Arctic mosquitos are bay. Yes, there are mosquitoes, lots of them, in the Arctic during the brief summer months. They somehow make their way everywhere and a pro-tip for ...