Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards.
Carrying what they need to be self-sufficient, the two of them have battled mountainous seas and hurricane-force winds, dragged their boats across jumbles of ice, fended of.
With her ocean-going Rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway.
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards