True tales from the frozen north August 15, 2010

Fife-born Orkney GP Gavin Francis headed to the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and Lapland to blend together a story of travel, history and myth for True North, observing how the peoples and lands of Arctic Europe have adapted to the 21st century. In The Third Man Factor, New Yorker John Geiger has collated tales of survival by those who have a taste for extreme adventuring. When faced with almost certain death, what drags some people back from the brink?