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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a five-hour sled ride from Cap Hope, the Madsens arrive at their destination, a frozen lake below a glacier. They spent most of the night ice fishing (at the end of May the sun does not set this far above the Arctic Circle)  for artic char. The next afternoon, after another 6 hours of fishing everyone gets to enjoy Emil's dinner: steamed arctic char with curry and rice in the canvas tent. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen shouts commands to his dogs as they try to get over a crack in the ice near Cap Hope Village in Greenland.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Getting over these cracks can be very dangerous as there is always the very serious worry of falling in. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • While Emil Madsen stows away the gear and winches the boat ashore, his nephew Julian and son Abraham drag the freshly killed seal up to the house, followed by inquisitive dogs licking up the trail of blood at Cap Hope  village, Greenland.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Although the boys are almost staggering with tiredness (it is 1:30 in the morning) they haul the animal inside, leaving it in the hallway by the bathroom overnight.
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  • Erika Madsen begins with a long incision to clean the seal her husban Emil shot and son Abraham and nephew Julian left in the hall. After cleaning, she will cook the best meat for her family, feed the remains to the sled dogs, then dry and sell the sealskin. Seal continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet. Cap Hope, Greenland. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Arctic char caught in a glacial lake (the steel pikes on poles are for chopping holes in the ice). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The remote village of Ittoqqortoormiit (population 550), Greenland, catches the late-night sunlight. During the summer here, the sun never actually disappears below the horizon, though it does dip briefly behind the high hills that surround the village. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • As remote as the family's home is in the remote village of Cap Hope, Greenland, the Madsen family's refrigerator is covered with stuck-on icons of popular culture. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil and Erika Madsen's nephew Julian bites down on an Arctic char, half in jest, for the camera because the fish is large, but locals say that children often eat small fish raw. It's said to "tickle their bellies." After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, they yank them out of the hole with a practiced motion. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 204).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a day of dogsled travel, Emil, Erika, and the children head out to fish for arctic char. After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, Erika yanks them out of the hole with a practiced motion.  Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 149).
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  • Arctic char caught in a glacial lake near Cap Hope village, Greenland. The steel pikes on poles are used to chop holes in the ice.   (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)    After a day of dogsled travel, seal hunter Emil Madsen, his wife Erika, and the children head out to fish for arctic char. After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, Erika yanks them out of the hole with a practiced motion.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Abraham, Martin and Belissa break away from watching MTV to watch dogsled teams and travelers on a skidoo hauling supplies in a sled pass by the window of their house. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Madsen family of Cap Hope village, Greenland is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen shouts commands to his dogs trying to get over a crack in the ice. Getting over these cracks can be very dangerous as there is always the very serious worry of falling in. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen stops to look for prey (seals, polar bears, musk ox, and geese) while the dogs take the moment to rest. Here he is looking for seals near the ice edge (a giant iceberg is in the open water in the background) The family has been traveling by dogsled for a good portion of the day. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Breakfast at the Madsen family's home has a little bit of everything. From sandwiches to cereal, everyone helps themselves to their morning meal. Emil (in blue shirt) stands in between his daughter Belissa and nephew Julian, 10. Abraham stands to the left of Julian, and Erika sits on the couch behind. This is an especially big and varied breakfast because Emil had been on hunting trip for a week and had just returned the night before, after collecting money in Ittoqqortoormiit, buying supplies in the store there and returning to his village on his dogsled (1.5 hours). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Erika Madsen will butcher the seal, keep the best cuts for the family, save some seal fat for fishing, and give the rest of the carcass to their sled dogs. Seal continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet.  Cap Hope, Greenland. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 164).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Erika Madsen, cleaning the seal her son Abraham and nephew Julian left in the hall, will cook the best meat for her family, feed the remains to the sled dogs, then dry and sell the sealskin. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 153). The Madsen family of Cap Hope village, Greenland is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a five-hour sled ride from Cap Hope, the Madsens arrive at their destination, a frozen lake below a glacier. Tired and hungry, everyone wolfs down Emil's musk ox stew with pasta in the canvas tent. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 149).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family in their living room in Cap Hope village, Greenland, with a week's worth of food. Standing by the TV are Emil Madsen, 40, and Erika Madsen, 26, with their children (left to right) Martin, 9, Belissa, 6, and Abraham, 12. The Madsen family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 144).
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  • GRE04.0379.xf1brw		(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family on a day of dogsled travel. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won’t break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) /// The Madsen family of Cap Hope village, Greenland is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks’ worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Emil Madsen, 40, his wife Erika, 26, and their children Abraham, 12, Martin, 9, and Belissa, 6. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 144-145 for a family portrait [Image number GRE04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks’ worth of food, and the family’s detailed food list with total cost.)
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  • The remote village of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, catches the late-night sunlight at 11 pm in May. Because of its location near the Arctic circle, the sun never actually disappears below the horizon  during the summer, although it does dip briefly behind the high hills that surround the village (population 550). In the winter the village experiences 24-hour-a-day darkness or twilight.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen is on the hunt for a seal just after midnight in Scoresby Sound, the enormous fjord on Greenland's eastern side. Later tonight he will find and shoot that seal and bring it back home for his wife, Erika, to clean and cook. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Greenlandic icebergs and adjacent mountains on the eastern coast across the sound from Cape Hope catch the late-night sunlight. During the summer at Cap Hope, the sun never actually disappears below the horizon, though it does dip briefly behind the high hills that surround the village. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen boys, Abraham and Martin, and their cousin Julian, 10, slide down the roof when they find a moment to play. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The crosses in the village cemetery in Ittoqqortoormiit (population 550) catch the late-night sunlight. During the summer here the sun never actually disappears below the horizon, though it does dip briefly behind the high hills that surround the village. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen is on the hunt for a seal just after midnight in Scoresby Sound, the enormous fjord on Greenland's eastern side. Later tonight he will find that seal and bring it back home for his wife, Erika, to clean and cook. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Having just returned from a seal hunting trip, Erika and Emil Madsen slather narwhal oil on dried fish for a snack in the living room of their home, with MTV on in the background. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Erika Madsen of the small village of Cap Hope runs a small non-perishables shop for the KNR quasigovernment food concern. The Madsens buy any food that they don't hunt or fish at the larger KNR store in Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A look inside the Madsen family's refrigerator. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). At breakfast, Emil's 10-year-old nephew Julian, who is visiting for a week, plays air guitar and eats sugar-drenched muesli while watching MTV in the Madsens' living room. Sleepily curled on the couch, his cousin Belissa ponders the antics of the rock stars while waiting for her mother to serve breakfast. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 155).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). While Emil Madsen stows away the gear and winches the boat ashore, his nephew Julian and son Abraham drag the freshly killed seal up to the house, followed by inquisitive dogs licking up the trail of blood. Although the boys are almost staggering with tiredness (it is 1:30 in the morning) they haul the animal inside, leaving it in the hallway by the bathroom overnight. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 152).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After quickly motoring over to the seal to haul its body out before it sinks, Emil Madsen, tired after hunting, heads back home. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 151).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). With a single expert rifle shot, Emil Madsen kills a seal just after midnight in Scoresby Sound, the enormous fjord on Greenland's eastern side. At the bullet's point of impact, a crown of water rises from the sea. The sound does not disturb Emil's son Abraham or his nephew Julian, who have fallen asleep under some old jackets in the bow. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 150).
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  • A wooden cross stands guard over the village cemetery in Cap Hope. Now home to just ten people, Cap Hope is where both Emil and Erika Madsen grew up. Emil's father is buried in this cemetery. Sparkling in the distance, a huge iceberg catches the 10:00 p.m. light. During the summer at Cap Hope, the sun never actually disappears below the horizon, though it does dip briefly behind the high hills that surround the village. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 147).
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  • The Madsen family on a day of dogsled travel in Cap Hope village, Greenland.   (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over the dogs.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Erika Madsen begins to clean the seal her husban Emil shot and son Abraham and nephew Julian left in the hall. After cleaning, she will cook the best meat for her family, feed the remains to the sled dogs, then dry and sell the sealskin. Seal continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet. Cap Hope, Greenland. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The remote village of Cap Hope, Greenland. Now home to just ten people, Cap Hope is where both Emil and Erika Madsen grew up. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family on a day of dogsled travel. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. The dog sled is on flat sea ice here: a giant iceberg is in the background at the ice edge.  (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family on a day of dogsled travel. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • As the main supply center for 500 miles in any direction, the general store in Ittoqqortoormiit, the bigger village (pop. 550) across the bay from Cap Hope, sells everything from guns to butter. Although such stores sell seal, musk ox, and other Arctic meats, most Greenlander families still obtain their meat from hunting. Hunting to feed the family is Emil Madsen's lifelong pursuit; taught to him by his father. Too fill his family's larder, Emil is often gone for a week or more. Not surprisingly, prices in the general store are high, but the Danish government heavily subsidizes Greenlanders' incomes to the tune of $6,786 per person in 1999, the latest year for which statistics are available. Geopolitically, Greenland is part of Denmark, hence the close ties of the people and the cross-immigration. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 153).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). To break the monotony of dogsled travel, 9-year-old Martin Madsen runs alongside. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. Martin's sister Belissa sleeps through part of the journey behind her father on his sled. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 148).
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  • Taking special care around the treacherous cracks in the ice near Cap Hope village in Greenland, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting.   (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in May was 6500 kcals. He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8.5 inches tall; and 170 pounds. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Lunchtime in the Madsen family household. Emil reaches over the center of the table to serve himself some of the musk ox stew, while a friend who had dropped in for a quick bite doses his meal with ketchup. 6-year-old Belissa takes a spoonful, as Emil's nephew Julian, 10, looks on. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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