Adrift on an Ice-Pan

An urgent operation waits on Labrador’s coast—but Easter Sunday’s journey across the ice leaves Dr. Wilfred Grenfell adrift on a fragment of it, with the shore slipping out of reach.

In 1908, Grenfell is serving the isolated fishing communities of Labrador, where winter can cut off help for months. Setting out with his dogs to reach a patient, the medical missionary finds himself carried away on a drifting ice-pan, exposed to the cold and forced to make dwindling supplies last. The man who has crossed a harsh coast to bring care to others must now fight for his own survival, while the ice beneath him offers no sure footing and the distance from land keeps growing. How long can he hold out on a moving scrap of ice?

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