Arctic diary

Sam Branson, who was twenty-two at the time, is a young man drawn to adventure and worried about where the planet is headed as its climate shifts quickly. He travels north into the Arctic interior alongside his father and a camera crew, documenting how the terrain is changing and how the Inuit, whose people have made a life there for some five millennia, cope with a harsh land that offers little mercy.

The journey brings nights on ice-covered seas and close encounters with polar bears. Father and son begin a winter expedition together, but the final stretch falls to Sam alone. Along the way he discovers reserves of toughness and bravery he did not know he had, set against a vast, dramatic backdrop.