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THE SNOW PATROL

t was dark and cold when Jesper Olsen fell

In wintertime in northern Greenland,
there's not a single ray of sunlight for more
than three months. The average temperature is 25
degrees below zero, Fahrenheit (32 degrees below
zero, Celsius), and the wind is brutal. As a Sirius
patrolier, traveling by dogsled across Greenland,
Jesper had taken the weather into consideration.
He was also prepared for unruly dogs, a heavy
sted, and the difficult landscape. What he hadn't
anticipated was that his knife would come loose
and that he would land on it, the blade cutting
into his thigh

“You OK?" his partner, Rasmus Jorgensen,

asked

“Yeah.” Jesper replied.

Jesper and Rasmus were 500 miles (805 kilo-

meters) north of the Arctic Circle. in one of the
‘most isolated places on. Earth. Tt was four days into
his first trip as a Sirius patroller, and he lay on the
snow, pain washing over him. He convinced hin-
self, within a few moments, that he would be all
right. During his intense training, hed learned to
remain calm no matter how difficult the situation,
and he remembered the Sirius motto! Whenever