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Life on the Edge
Day 2, posted July 3, 2007
by Lonny Lippsett , photos by Chris Linder
Sometime around 2:30 a.m. Monday, after a half-day sail north through the open ocean, a long, straight, white line appeared, like a second horizon. It was the edge of the Arctic ice pack.
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