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Article: A Rendezvous With Icebergs, Off the Coast of Greenland;WAYS & MEANS
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- The Washington Post
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- January 24, 1988
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Nothing else in nature adequately prepares one for the first
up-close look at an iceberg.
Watching the surreal white mountain, awash in an emerald-green,
frigid sea off the coast of Greenland, is humbling-more humbling even
than a first look at the Alps or the Grand Canyon, because icebergs
are in motion. And all the more so, because they seem to be so
accessible. From the deck of a small coastal steamer, you can reach
out and almost touch them and watch with envy the flocks of birds
cavorting upon them.
Even the later discovery that one's virgin view was of a
pipsqueak, an iceberg fragment or the remains of a giant diminished
by what passes for summer above the Arctic Circle, can't ...