WHITENING

KLUANE ICEFIELDS, YUKON

Tom flies our Helio Courier so low in high terrain that we're submerged in altitude. We lift over chromatic tundras into engulfing whiteness, distant blueness. Ice thickening over rising alpine turns the climate arctic. Makes ascending altitudes as otherworldly as polar latitudes. Glacial seas like polar ice encompass mammoth mountains in atmospheres impenetrably dense, unfathomably deep.

Onwards we argonaut.

Having lost all sense of gravity to groundless levity.