Barrow, Alaska. Where Day Becomes Night
The difference between Dubai and Barrow — between + 40C and -7C degrees — seemed to be more spiritual than a physical experience.
The penetrating chill, supported by the arctic breeze, slowly enveloped the body and pierced me to the bone of my soul. A feeling well known to me, but here, in this place — at the “end of the world,” a thought was unexpectedly born with it; it was an excitement… and the awareness of not belonging.
Barrow, the northern tip of Alaska
Population: 4,700
The average temperature in July, the warmest month: 8 ° C (around 46 F)
The lowest temperature recorded: -49 ° C (around -56 F)
Barrow, the northernmost city of Alaska, lies 515 km above the Arctic Circle. It is cut off from the north by the Arctic Ocean, from the south by the Brooks Mountains — the world’s most empty, least exposed, and least visited mountain range. Separated and forgotten by all, it is accessible only by air or sea in the summer season, when the ocean ceases to be a frozen surface of the water — an endless snow-white land of snow and ice.
