Pearls Around the White Continent Series
Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke have been traveling around Antartica and sharing their adventures as a series published in CW. Here’s the collection of stories.
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Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke have been traveling around Antartica and sharing their adventures as a series published in CW. Here’s the collection of stories.
In Part IV of this five-part series, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, on board their 40-foot steel ketch, Northern Light, return to places on the Antarctic Peninsula that they first visited in 1984. Their pleasure turns to dismay, however, when they become witnesses to the profound affects brought to the region by climate change.
A cruising couple sailing the North Pacific arrives in Alaska to discover that where there’s smoke, there’s desire. A feature from our November 2010 issue
In this installment, documentary filmmakers Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke continue their 22,500-nautical-mile circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean. Sailing the 40-foot steel ketch Northern Light in the Roaring 40s, Furious 50s, and Screaming 60s, Deborah and Rolf explore the beautiful and far-flung subantarctic islands strung like pearls around the bottom of our planet. Click here for previous installments.
A collection of feature stories and photos from Herb’s Around the America’s voyage.
With the ultimate outcome very much in doubt, the 64-foot cutter Ocean Watch embarks on an eastward attempt to transit an icy, dicey Northwest Passage. A feature from our January 2010 issue
As promised to friends in northern Alaska, Alvah and Diana are having the worst time possible in southeast Alaska. “The Roger Henry Files” for our September 10, 2009, CW Reckonings.
Ice, we’d discovered, is cold, hard, dangerous-and exhausting. “Herb’s Watch” for our August 6, 2009 _CW_Reckonings
A night shift north of the 70th parallel delivers a gorgeous, unreal sail. “Herb’s Watch” for our July 23, 2009, _CW_Reckonings
With plans in the works to send a couple to Mars, the BBC turned to high-latitude adventurers and CW contributing authors Deborah Shapiro and Rolfe Bjelke to hear how they cope as a couple during long periods of isolation. You can revisit their adventures circumnavigating Antarctica aboard their ketch Northern Light in this riveting five-part series.
Aboard Roger Henry, Alvah and Diana Simon are hunkering down for the winter at a marina in Seward, Alaska. “The Roger Henry File” or December 10, 2008
Calving glaciers pound out a glorious conclusion to Alvah, Diana, and Ryland’s journey through the wilds of Alaska. “The Roger Henry File” for November 13, 2008
Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke have been traveling around Antartica and sharing their adventures as a series published in CW. Here’s the collection of stories.
In Part IV of this five-part series, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, on board their 40-foot steel ketch, Northern Light, return to places on the Antarctic Peninsula that they first visited in 1984. Their pleasure turns to dismay, however, when they become witnesses to the profound affects brought to the region by climate change.
A cruising couple sailing the North Pacific arrives in Alaska to discover that where there’s smoke, there’s desire. A feature from our November 2010 issue
In this installment, documentary filmmakers Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke continue their 22,500-nautical-mile circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean. Sailing the 40-foot steel ketch Northern Light in the Roaring 40s, Furious 50s, and Screaming 60s, Deborah and Rolf explore the beautiful and far-flung subantarctic islands strung like pearls around the bottom of our planet. Click here for previous installments.
A collection of feature stories and photos from Herb’s Around the America’s voyage.
With the ultimate outcome very much in doubt, the 64-foot cutter Ocean Watch embarks on an eastward attempt to transit an icy, dicey Northwest Passage. A feature from our January 2010 issue
As promised to friends in northern Alaska, Alvah and Diana are having the worst time possible in southeast Alaska. “The Roger Henry Files” for our September 10, 2009, CW Reckonings.
Ice, we’d discovered, is cold, hard, dangerous-and exhausting. “Herb’s Watch” for our August 6, 2009 _CW_Reckonings
A night shift north of the 70th parallel delivers a gorgeous, unreal sail. “Herb’s Watch” for our July 23, 2009, _CW_Reckonings
With plans in the works to send a couple to Mars, the BBC turned to high-latitude adventurers and CW contributing authors Deborah Shapiro and Rolfe Bjelke to hear how they cope as a couple during long periods of isolation. You can revisit their adventures circumnavigating Antarctica aboard their ketch Northern Light in this riveting five-part series.
Aboard Roger Henry, Alvah and Diana Simon are hunkering down for the winter at a marina in Seward, Alaska. “The Roger Henry File” or December 10, 2008
Calving glaciers pound out a glorious conclusion to Alvah, Diana, and Ryland’s journey through the wilds of Alaska. “The Roger Henry File” for November 13, 2008
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