15th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Inuit elder looking for fishing spot

Ms. Susie, an Inuit elder, is looking for fishing spot as she has done every winter in most of her 80 years long life. Half of her life she has lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle and every winter in an iqlo where she gave birth to her children/ The temperature is minus -45 C and the ice is meters deep. She lives in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Canada.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 02.2015
Date Uploaded: 11.2017
Photo Location: Canada
Copyright: © Dorte Verner