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MYTHICAL animals; RAINCOATS; POLAR bear

Photographer Javier Frutos and I have just arrived on this raised point jutting out of the surrounding lowlands along the Siorak Brook in Labrador's western Torngat Mountains, peaks of varying sizes all around. Not far from the camp, lying half hidden among the caribou lichen that's already starting to grey in the cool early August days that mark the end of summer at this latitude, Merkuratsuk unveils a sun-bleached plank he says was clearly once part of a qamutiik, the traditional multifunctional Inuit sled. But the photographers aren't picking up our message, and the caribou lives up to its moniker, ghosting on beyond them. [Extracted from the article]

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