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‘Into the Ice’ Review: North by Northwest

‘Into the Ice’ Review: North by Northwest
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By Mark YostMany people reassessed their lives during the covid-19 pandemic. Mark Synnott, an accomplished mountaineer and writer, decided it was a good time to refit his sailboat, the Polar Sun, and navigate the Northwest Passage – the icy arctic waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. “Could I sail a forty-year-old fibreglass boat from Maine to Alaska – a voyage of some seven thousand miles – and live to tell my own tale?” he wonders. “It was a question that would soon all but...

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