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With the arrival of cold air, the Baotou section of the Yellow River froze on Dec 5. Ice covered 146 kilometers of the waterway in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, creating some magnificent scenery.
âIceboundâ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor In her new book, “Icebound,” the journalist Andrea Pitzer chronicles William Barents’s three attempts to find a mythical northeast passage to Asia.Credit...Christopher Miller for The New York Times Buy Book â¾ By Rachel Slade ICEBOUND By Andrea Pitzer Europeans once dreamed of an open sea at the top of the world. In 1606, Gerard Mercator, arguably the most famous cartographer of his time or any other, published a top-down map of the earth as he understood it. At the center of Mercatorâs North Pole stood a magnetic mountain that pulled all compass needles northward; whirling around the mass of gray rock was a warm sea ringed by a thick circle of ice.