When the blowing snow of an Arctic blizzard blurs the line between ground and sky in the North Slope village of Wainwright, Alaska, the people who live there call it a whiteout. But it takes more than a whiteout to keep Elsie Ahmaogak and dozens of her neighbors from trudging to the village school for a science festival. continued...

Photo: Jeff Schultz/Alaska Stock

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Reprinted from
the HHMI Bulletin,
June 2003, pages 14-17.
©2003 Howard Hughes
Medical Institute