The Native Alaskan Survival Story That Revealed How Indigenous Knowledge Helped Humans Adapt To One Of Earth’s Harshest Environments
None of the expedition members had this knowledge.
The dogs they took across the ice toward Siberia were traveling with handlers who did not know how to manage them under the specific conditions they were encountering.
Whatever happened to Crawford, Maurer, and Galle in the Chukchi Sea — whether they fell through unstable ice, whether a lead opened and cut off their retreat, whether a storm caught them on the ice — their handling of both the travel conditions and the dogs was not at the level that would have maximized their chances.
The Iñupiat families who had refused to go to Wrangel Island had sled dogs.
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