Author Archives: Joy Guillemot
Perceived truth in the Arctic
You come to realize after a few days in the Arctic that it is not the world playing tricks on you, but rather your own perceptions of what is true that deceive you. It turns out that when you stand[…..]
Suspended in time and ice
We spent the last five days trying, and failing, to descend southward through the Hindlopen Strait between Spitsbergen and Gustav Adolf Island. Following Saturday’s harrowing escape from becoming one with the bears or the ice in Murehenson fjord – we[…..]
Adventures and Misadventures
“Bring only your passport and dress extremely warmly. The helicopter will arrive in 40 minutes.” Before it was announced, I had already prepared my things to abandon ship. Danger was not retreating against the running clock, and the highly skilled[…..]
Joy Guillemot
World Health Organisation, Public Health and Environment, Geneva DrPH candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Joy is an ecological anthropologist and environmental health scientist. She is completing a PhD at Johns Hopkins and works at the[…..]