SARANAC LAKE — Join St. Lawrence University Biology professor Eileen Visser as she describes the first single season human-powered traverse of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in a talk at 5 p.m. this Saturday in the Saranac Lake Free Library’s Cantwell Room. 

This elusive sea route was long impassible due to thick year-round ice, but climate change has opened the channels between high arctic islands, allowing Visser’s four person team to cross the 1,800 mile Northwest Passage adventure of tackling sea ice, wind, cold and polar bears to experience a 103 day immersion in nature July to October 2023.