I’ve proceeded from that rookie experience in Greenland to lead my own expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctica over the past three decades, my original trepidation has been replaced with gratitude for the privilege of working in some of the most extraordinary landscapes on Earth. How many times can you work in places that few, if any, humans have ever encountered before? And to do that exploration in the service of understanding the fundamentals of our world and the ways it came to be?
