Chess

Several days of storm have ripped apart the island's cloak of shorefast sea ice. Bergs the sizes of houses are tossed around by the swells like flotsam.

Above Gambell on Sivuqaq Mountain, we watched a snowy owl face off with two nesting ravens. The black knights repeatedly leaping over the snowy bishop until the owl had enough and left the game; taking flight and moving south along the mountain, blending with snow, fog, and cloud.