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Subject 1: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Barking sled dogs. Timecode In: 00:02:12. Timecode out: 00:10:20. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Jerry Kubalenko, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:13:55. Timecode out: 00:53:32. Notes: Arctic expedition discussion. Subject 3: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Radio transceiver sounds. Timecode In: 00:55:17. Timecode out: 01:02:56. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Corwin Peterson, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 01:06:09. Timecode out: 01:07:32. Notes: Arctic expedition discussion. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Corwin Peterson, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 01:12:04. Timecode out: 01:26:17. Notes: Arctic expedition discussion. Equipment Notes: DPA4006 omni mics; Sonosax preamp. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: North Pole Log of DAT #: 8 "Back in Resolute #1: Huskies, Jerry Kubalenko, Corky" Date: 4/29/99 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good 0:52 tape begins 2:10 - 10:20 Huskies EA 13:56 Just tell me who you are. JK 13:57 Jerry Kubalenko. EA 13:58 And where you're from. JK 13:59 I am a journalist from Toronto. EA 14:01 And how old are you? JK 14:03 I'm 42. EA 14:04 And when we ran into you¿well, what have you just done? JK 14:07 Well, I was going to ski around Axel Heiberg Island, which is the island just to the west of Ellesmere, which is the northernmost land in North America. EA 14:16 And what happened? JK 14:18 Well, the snow's a little bit too soft for the sled I was carrying, which was 330 pounds. And so I needed to make 10 miles a day, could only make 7 or 8. I wasn't going to get to the real key area I wanted to look at and I was searching for the remains of a German explorer who disappeared about 70 years ago. And so, there was no point in going on so I turned back. EA 14:37 So that was the basis of your trip? JK 14:39 Yes, I know a lot about the island and its history, so I have, sort of, hit points all along the way I was¿I wanted to look at a site of a murder at the northern end of the island that happened back in 1914, but even that would have been a hard, one month slog, and I had already done the entire route except for that one little murder site, so I figured it wasn't¿it wasn't worth it. EA 15: 02 How did you know about it? JK 15:04 Just historic research. I've been traveling the island since '86 and so I kind of know a lot the stories that happened there and the interesting thing about the High Arctic is how nothing rots, and so it's the world's most wonderful outside museum and people in the Southwest, I used to explore in the desert and finding little bits of Anasazi pottery. Well, you explore the Arctic and you can find the cans that the explorers used in the 19th century, the stone huts they lived in, the clothing they wore, sometimes buttons still attached. It's very special and I never liked history as a kid and didn't like the academic stuff, but this is living history and it's hard to ignore. EA 15:50 It's basically preserved because of the weather? JK 15:52 That's right. It's in a refrigerator for 11 months of the year and the other month is pretty dry, so it's gonna be around for hundreds of years and I've found notes, notes and bottles that are 50 years old. EA 16:07 Now when you say, traveling around the island, most people think, oh, traveling around the island and driving around. Explain what you mean by "traveling around." JK 16:16 Well, the way you travel up there is either by skiing or walking it at this time of year, which is April and May. And what I do is I haul my gear with me on a little fiberglass sled and I carry enough for however long I'm going for, one month, two months, so you're carrying anywhere between 200 and 330 pounds, depending on how long you're going for. The snow is quite hard, so it's not the soft snow that people ar... (Notes truncated)
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