Dalton - Alone Against the Arctic

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Ron Adams

Caleb Adams

Afghanistan

Alaska

Alaska Airlines

Aleut

Aleutian Islands

Roald Amundsen

Anchorage

Anvil Creek

Arctic

Arctic Circle

Arctic Lagoon

Arctic Ocean

Audacity (boat)

Baffin Bay

Baffin Island

William Baffin

Baldwin Peninsula

Barrow (village)

Bear (ship)

Cape Beaufort

Beaufort Sea

Beaufort scale

beluga

Belvedere (ship)

Bering Sea

Bering Strait

Vitus Bering

Lt. Ellsworth Bertholf

William Bligh

Cape Blossom

Brevig Mission

Brooks Mountain

Brooks Range

Chester Bundy

Richard Burton (actor)

Thomas Button

Robert Bylot

Bystraya River

John Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

Dr. S.J. Call

Cessna

Chamisso Island

Chukchi Sea

Glen Colclough

Capt. James Cook

Steve (and Candace) Dahl

Geoff Dalton

Penny Dalton

John Davis

Davis Strait

Deering

DeLong Mountains

Devil Mountain

DEW Line

Harry De Windt

Cape Dezhnev

Diomede Islands

HMS Discovery (ship)

Cape Dyer

Endicott Mountains

Eschsholtz Bay

Cape Espenberg

Luke Foxe

Sir John Franklin

Martin Frobisher

Gabriel (ship)

William Gilpin

Gja (ship)

Golovnin Bay

Good Hope Bay

Greenwich

Hawaii

Hawley, Jimmy

HMS Herald (ship)

Herschel Island

Hindu Kush

Hotham Inlet

Henry Hudson

Icy Cape

Igipak Mountain

Inupiat (people)

Inupiaq (language)

Bobby Iyatunguk

Laban Iyatunguk

Lt. David Jarvis

Arnie and Clara Johanssen

Johnson (outboard motors)

Kamchatka

Kigitaq

King Island

Kivalina

Kivalina River

Kotlik Lagoon

Kotzebue (town)

Lt. Otto Von Kotzebue

Kotzebue Sound

Cape Krusenstern

Kukpuk River

Land Rover

Ledyard Bay

Cape Lisburne

Jack London

Lopp Lagoon

Thomas Lopp

Marryatt Lagoon

Matthew (ship)

Albert Mazzona

Frank Mazzona

President William McKinley

Metzeler

Michael (ship)

Moscow

Mustang (suit)

Ninety-Nines

Noatak River

Nootka Sound

Nome

North Star (ship)

Northeast Passage

Northwest Passage

Northwest Territories

Sir Fletcher Norton

Norton Sound

Okhotsk

Overland Relief Expedition

William Parry

Peter the Great

Pitmegea River

polar bear

Point Barrow

Point Hope

Point Lay

Point Spencer

Port Clarence

Cape Prince of Wales

Prudhoe Bay

radio stations CBC Tuktoyaktuk, CJOR Vancouver, KICY Nome, KOTZ Kotzebue

reindeer

HMS Resolution (ship)

Cape Rodney

Rosario (ship)

Royal Navy

Russia

Russian Navy

St. Petersburg

St. Gabriel (ship)

St. Lawrence Island

St. Peter (ship)

Sarichef Island

Seward Peninsula

Robert Falcon Scott

Shishmaref (village)

Capt. Lt. Glieb Semenovich Shishmaref

Siberia

Sinuk River

Sledge Island

Bob Spence

Georg Steller

Martha Swan

Sylvester Swan

Teller

Tigara Peninsula

Capt. George Fred Tilton

Cape Thompson

Tin City

Tuktoyaktuk

Tununak

umiak

U.S. Revenue Cutter Service

Vancouver

Cape Vancouver

George Vancouver

Vancouver Island

Chris Volkle

Wainwright

Wales

walrus

whale

Jim (and Mitzi) Woods

Wulik River

Cape York

York Mountains

Yukon

Yukon River

Without the support and encouragement of my wife, Penny, my Alaskan adventure would not have been possible. Her love and understanding kept me going then, as they continue to do today. I hope I have proved worthy.

Thanks so much to my friend Glen Colclough, who helped me get ready in Vancouver and who went with us to Nome. I am indebted to the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard station at Port Clarence for their kindness, and to Laban Iyatunguk and Bobby Iyatunguk, who befriended me on an overnight stop in Deering. In Kivalina, I owe much to Chester Bundy, Sylvester and Alice Swan, Martha Swan, Caleb Adams, Ron and Virginia Adams, and Jimmy Hawley, plus North Star crew member Chris Volkle. In Point Hope, my warmest thanks go to Jim and Mitzi Woods; to Eric, who spread the news of my capsize; to Irma, who warmed my icy feet; and to all the others, whose names I never knew, who went out in a storm to search for me. To all of you I offer these few words: I can never repay you for your friendship or for the help you gave me when I needed it most. All I can say is Thank you. I hope this book will help in some small way.

My love and gratitude goes in memoriam to my late brother Geoff, who always believed I could and would succeed in my adventures. He, and his confidence in me, is sadly missed.

I am also indebted to David Rocky Rocksborough-Smith of Vancouver, who saw the potential in my expedition. Rocky helped me get a boat and a motor, and he gave me workshop space in which to prepare for the journey. Thanks also to Peter Gleissner from Auto Marine Specialties, Ltd. (of Calgary), who supplied the German-manufactured Metzeler Tornado speedboat that became Audacity , and to the Johnson Outboard Motor company for the engine. Thanks also to the following companies (some no longer in existence, others now absorbed by larger corporations) that assisted with equipment or other areas of support: ArmourClad, Blue Johns Ltd., Robert Bosch Co., First Air, Mustang Industries, Pacific Western Airlines, Tapatco, Inc., and the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver.

I have enjoyed working with Audrey McClellan, who edited this book. She has my gratitude. And thanks again to Vivian Sinclair, managing editor of the Heritage Group, and to publisher Rodger Touchie for their continued confidence in my work.

Steve Crowhurst

Anthony Dalton is a British-born Canadian adventurer, writer and photographer. His expeditions have taken him across the Sahara, through the deserts of the Middle East, into the mountains of Afghanistan, down wilderness rivers in northern Canada, into the Australian outback, through the Sundarbans jungle of Bangladesh and into the Arctic.

His adventure and boating-related articles have been published in magazines and newspapers in 20 countries and in nine languages. His previous nautical books are Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship , Wayward Sailor: In Search of the Real Tristan Jones and J/Boats: Sailing to Success . He is also co-author of The Best of Nautical Quarterly, Vol 1, The Lure of Sail .

Dalton lives with his wife, Penny, and Dalmatian, Mr. Parker, on the bluffs in Tsawwassen, BC , and commutes on weekends to their waterfront home on Mayne Island.

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