Hughes took part in the Inuit community’s annual ice fishing competition for arctic char. Seal hunting is an essential part of life for the Inuit. The skin, like this one from a recent kill ...

and fatty marine mammals like seal and beluga, often eaten raw, frozen, or cured — a way of eating for which the Inuit have unique genetic adaptations. With the Arctic heating up nearly four ...

The Arctic and the Antarctic are extreme environments ... you'd wear loads of fur, you'd wear seal skin. These days we have all sorts of modern fabric. But in those days they didn't.