Thanks for posting this as I was not previously aware of the expedition. This was truly an epic journey.

I've been to Ellesmere twice and it is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on earth. I'd go back in a heartbeat.

For more on Ellesmere see Jerry Kobalenko's "The Horizontal Everest" and Jim Brandenburg's classic "White Wolves, Living With an Arctic Legend".

And for a truly harrowing story of the dangers inherent there, check out Guttridge's story of the disastrous expedition led by Adolphus Washington Greeley in the late 19th century, "Ghosts of ape Sabine".