Twin Otter taking off from beach strip

Sandy Briggs at the 1908 overwintering site of American explorer Frederick Cook

Sandy Briggs: organic chemist and mountaineer

Early May off the north coast of Devon Island

Ice-draped mountains of south-eastern Devon Island

Archaeological site - possible komatik stand

Bull muskox - long lens

The view over Lady Ann Strait toward Nirjutiqavvik (Coburg Island)

Walrus on ice floe

Sledding the ice-foot

Seaweed in ice

South coast of Devon Island, looking toward the Cunningham Mountains

Negotiating the rubbly icefoot near Cape Warrender

Creative sled conversion

Arctic hare grazing near RCMP outhouse at Dundas Harbour

View across Dundas Harbour showing the unconformity between the Canadian Shield and overlying sediments

Long-tailed duck (Old Squaw)

Thule culture Inuit winter house and bowhead whale bones

Woolly bear caterpillar

Woolly lousewort

John Dunn in early summer sledding mode on Croker Bay

Sandy negotiating a glacier meltwater channel

Mother polar bear and cubs at the head of Croker Bay...hoping to keep away from adult male bears

Locations of our 80+ bear sightings during three expeditions on Devon Island

Crossing meltwater at 1000m elevation on the ice cap

To infinity and beyond - traversing the Devon Island ice cap

Glacier melt pool

Sandy Briggs uses the natural ferry method to cross a lead on Jones Sound

A lead opening up in early summer on the north coast

An arctic oasis: the Sverdrup Lowlands