Here Be Dragons

Documenting the wild world in expeditions that go to the ends of the earth

Text And Photography By Ralph Lee Hopkins

Published March 22, 2011
Updated July 1, 2016

It’s 2 a.m. at 80º north of the equator. The midnight sun glares off puddles in the pack ice.

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