Gretel Ehrlich, award-winning author, has received a National Geographic Expeditions Grant for the International Polar Year 2007 during which she will make a circumpolar journey to talk with indigenous Arctic people at the top of the world about how their lives are being affected by the climate crisis.

Ehrlich will travel from Arctic Alaska, across Nunavut, to NW Greenland, northwestern Russia, and Chukotka in NE Siberia, traveling by skin boat, fixed wing plane, helicopter, reindeer, and dogsled, gathering traditional and ecological knowledge from elders, hunters, and village people as they face the crisis of extinction of a culture and an entire ecosystem.

Farthest North: THE END OF ICE will be a book, a magazine piece, a website, and a documentary film, with updates on "Morning Edition" by SAT phone from the field. On her website: THE END OF ICE, it will be possible to follow her circumboreal travels, to read her journal updates, see images from the top of the world, and listen to Arctic people as they tell the world about their plight.

For more information, please visit the expedition website.