As big as a bear and with a kind, boyish face, Danielsen is a 45-year-old ice hunter from Qaanaaq, a village of about 650 people whose brightly painted houses cover a hillside
overlooking a fjord.1 He’s heading toward the ice edge to find walruses, as hunters of Inuit ethnicity10 have done for as long as memory. With his extended family and 57 dogs to feed, he’ll need to kill several walruses on this trip.