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By Nigel Foster

In 1981, Nigel Foster flew to Canada’s Baffin Island to start a solo kayak journey south towards northern Labrador. After crossing the 40-mile extensive Hudson Strait in howling winds and combating a ten knot tide race, Foster crash-landed on a small island at midnight. He had frostbitten hands and was once three hundred miles from the nearest village. With unbelievable success, 8 days later he ran throughout an oil tanker and hitched a trip south. He had survived—marking essentially the most impressive solo crossings in history—but the failure of the second one element of the journey he had initially deliberate haunted him.
In 2004, Foster again to northern Labrador together with his then female friend (now spouse) Kristin Nelson. Launching from Kuujjuaq in Northern Quebec, the couple paddled the Ungava Bay coast—which has one of many biggest tidal variances within the world—to where Foster had boarded the oil tanker 23 years previous. From this distant situation, the couple accomplished the journey to Nain that Foster initially deliberate for 1981. They encountered extra polar bears than humans. the tale of the 2 journeys varieties the spine for On Polar Tides—Originally self-published as Stepping Stones in 2009—which deals an intimate and insightful view of Ungava and Labrador. the hot, revised version contains gripping reminiscences of the polar adventures and fifty four colour photographs.

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