An Unsettling Crime at the Top of the World

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In the isolated Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, some 800 miles from the North Pole, the tiny town of Longyearben is the kind of place where people go to start their lives over. With brightly colored homes laid out neatly against a mountainous backdrop, it seems out of a fairytale. There’s almost no crime, so residents leave their front doors unlocked and their keys in the car. In the surrounding Arctic wilderness are abundant polar bears, arctic foxes, and reindeer. But when an eerie crime happened in the frozen winter darkness, it brought home a harsh reality: in the modern world, trouble always finds you.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Visit Florida,
0:05.0	one of the country's great adventure destinations, and also the home of conservation photographer,
0:10.0	Carleton Ward Jr.
0:12.0	My name is Carleton Ward Jr. And name is Carleton Ward Jr and I'm a National Geographic
0:14.8	photographer and explorer. I'm eighth generation Floridian and my family
0:19.8	goes back at least until the mid 1800s here and that's given me a lot of connection to
0:25.8	Florida's heartland and to Florida's heritage.
0:28.1	Carlton grew up on the Gulf Coast and after leaving to travel the world as a
0:31.6	photographer he realized that some of the greatest adventures he could find were in his own backyard.
0:37.0	He kind of fell in love with wild Florida and had a chance to wander among the mangroves and wait among the salt marshes and look at the
0:45.6	osprey nest and get a sense of the adventure that waits out there.
0:51.2	You may not know it, but public lands cover huge areas of Florida.
0:55.0	In addition to stunning national parks, there are 175 state parks.
1:00.0	Thousands of species live here, including endangered black bears and panthers.
1:05.0	In an effort to help preserve this incredible wilderness,
1:08.0	Carleton helped establish the Florida Wildlife Corridor.
1:12.0	And it's the largest protected mangrove ecosystem in the Western
1:15.2	Hemisphere. It wraps the entire southern tip of the state. It's the area where you have
1:19.4	the Everglades Wilderness Waterway. It's a 99 mile canoe trail where you can start in Everglades City and end in Flamingo.
1:27.0	In addition to that, once you get into North Florida and Northwest Florida,
1:31.0	it has the highest concentration of freshwater springs in the world.
1:34.3	Amazing places to dive into snorkel and to get a literal lens down into the underground
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