Surviving among the icebergs of Greenland's Scoresby Sound, one of the toughest and most remote places on the planet, has never been easy
A partly restaured house that was used by French explorator Commandant Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936) in Ittoqqortoormiit, village of about 350 inhabitants in Scoresby Fjord Image: Olivier Morin / AFP©
The last Inuit hunters of Ittoqqortoormiit are a resilient bunch.
Surviving among the icebergs of Greenland's Scoresby Sound, one of the toughest and most remote places on the planet, has never been easy.
But their unique way of life is now in grave danger from galloping climate change.
The ice cut them off from the rest of the world for 11 months of the year, but it brought them the seals, musk ox, narwhals and polar bears that fed and clothed them through the long polar night.
All those old certainties are melting away with the glaciers as temperatures in the Arctic rise four times faster than elsewhere.