IMAGINE flying miles above the earth in a wooden airplane with no pressurization and little heat. At 30,000 feet, the outside air temperature is about-35 Fahrenheit. After a few hours, the cabin temperature drops to -20. Now imagine taking aerial photographs of Canada's Arctic to map the land after World War II and living a life of isolation-in a tent on the permafrost-near the top of the world.
Photographer Ernest Scullion experienced these...