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Greenland's icy attractions beckon
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DAVE LEVINTHAL, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
03-23-2008
Greenland's icy attractions beckon
By DAVE LEVINTHAL, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Date: 03-23-2008, Sunday
Section: TRAVEL
Edtion: All Editions
Column: DESTINATION: INTERNATIONAL
A bulletin crackled over the ship-to-shore radio. Even in impossibly polysyllabic Greenlandic, it sounded ominous.
"Hey-ay!" my 20-year-old sea kayaking guide shouted. He was whipping his index finger in a circle, the universal sign for "time to turn around and get the heck out of here."
We did, and good thing. About an hour after dragging my ...
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