0013 On Thin Ice | 6

On Thin Ice | 6 – Uunartoq, 70, is lying prone on the ice, line-fishing through a hole he had made in the ice. Now and then he twitches the line with his hand to lure in the fish. His back pains, back from when he was a dogsled racer, sometimes force him to fish lying down. Due to the cold, he is wearing trousers and boots made from polar bearskin. He lives in a remote village in the north of Greenland, together with 250 other villagers and their 500 sled dogs. He is one of the last true hunters trying to lead a traditional lifestyle – subsistence hunting and fishing. Hunters struggle with shortening winters and unpredictable weather. They can only dogsled for a few months each year and have had to adapt and become fishermen.