Four men inside a rowboat produce an historic attempt for the Northwest Passage to target global attention with an environmental catastrophe. ‘Vallely transports the reader to locations few will ever proceed: the very edges of the earth and of human endurance.’ -Evan Solomon Within this gripping first-hand account, four seasoned adventurers navigate a complicated, high-tech rowboat across the Northwest Passage. Among the ‘last firsts’ remaining in the adventure world, this journey is only possible due to the dramatic influences of global warming in the high Arctic, which provide an ironic possibility to draw attention to the growing urgency of weather change. ? On the way, the team repeatedly face life-threatening danger from storms unmatched in their ferocity and unpredictability and bears see to unprecedented adjustments in the Arctic habitat and inhabitants, while weathering gale-force vitriol from environment change deniers who’ve taken to social media to attack them and undermine their initiatives.