Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

Spring is harvest season when you're living off the land in the high Arctic. Here's how the author learned from Inupiat ...

There is typically one chance to harpoon the whale. If the hunt is successful, each person in the village can receive a share of the meat. A butchered bowhead whale can yield thousands of pounds ...

Bowhead whales, however, far exceed these expectations ... For a whale to survive to 150 years now, it would have endured decades of intense hunting, making such cases exceedingly rare.

Bowhead whales follow daily dive cycles and may coordinate across long distances. The calls show efficiency, possibly ...

This adventure film features Scott McVay an authority on whales and filmmaker Bill Mason The objective was to film the bowhead a magnificent inhabitant of the cold Arctic seas brought to the edge ...

The Bowhead Whale. Lawrence, Kansas: The Society for Marine Mammology ... Ancient Land: Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and its Rituals. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. McCartney, Allen ed., ...

Drones solve a 170-year-old mystery about bowhead whale behaviour Bowhead whales live up to 200 years and have a range over vast distances. For the last 170 years, local Inuit have observed that ...