Is there anything out there for the modern-day Henry Stanley ... His goal is not just to introduce us to the Inupiat Eskimos of northern Alaska and their whale-centered culture, but to experience ...

On the other are roughly 9,000 Inupiat Eskimo, whose once-ramshackle coastal villages have been transformed into modern communities with schools, clinics and indoor plumbing since oil started ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...