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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family in their living room in Cap Hope village, Greenland, with a week's worth of food. Standing by the TV are Emil Madsen, 40, and Erika Madsen, 26, with their children (left to right) Martin, 9, Belissa, 6, and Abraham, 12. The Madsen family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 144).
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  • The remote village of Cap Hope, Greenland. Now home to just ten people, Cap Hope is where both Emil and Erika Madsen grew up. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen boys, Abraham and Martin, and their cousin Julian, 10, slide down the roof when they find a moment to play. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A wooden cross stands guard over the village cemetery in Cap Hope. Now home to just ten people, Cap Hope is where both Emil and Erika Madsen grew up. Emil's father is buried in this cemetery. Sparkling in the distance, a huge iceberg catches the 10:00 p.m. light. During the summer at Cap Hope, the sun never actually disappears below the horizon, though it does dip briefly behind the high hills that surround the village. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 147).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Lunchtime in the Madsen family household. Emil reaches over the center of the table to serve himself some of the musk ox stew, while a friend who had dropped in for a quick bite doses his meal with ketchup. 6-year-old Belissa takes a spoonful, as Emil's nephew Julian, 10, looks on. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Breakfast at the Madsen family's home has a little bit of everything. From sandwiches to cereal, everyone helps themselves to their morning meal. Emil (in blue shirt) stands in between his daughter Belissa and nephew Julian, 10. Abraham stands to the left of Julian, and Erika sits on the couch behind. This is an especially big and varied breakfast because Emil had been on hunting trip for a week and had just returned the night before, after collecting money in Ittoqqortoormiit, buying supplies in the store there and returning to his village on his dogsled (1.5 hours). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A look inside the Madsen family's refrigerator. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • As remote as the family's home is in the remote village of Cap Hope, Greenland, the Madsen family's refrigerator is covered with stuck-on icons of popular culture. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). At breakfast, Emil's 10-year-old nephew Julian, who is visiting for a week, plays air guitar and eats sugar-drenched muesli while watching MTV in the Madsens' living room. Sleepily curled on the couch, his cousin Belissa ponders the antics of the rock stars while waiting for her mother to serve breakfast. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 155).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Having just returned from a seal hunting trip, Erika and Emil Madsen slather narwhal oil on dried fish for a snack in the living room of their home, with MTV on in the background. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Erika Madsen of the small village of Cap Hope runs a small non-perishables shop for the KNR quasigovernment food concern. The Madsens buy any food that they don't hunt or fish at the larger KNR store in Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Abraham, Martin and Belissa break away from watching MTV to watch dogsled teams and travelers on a skidoo hauling supplies in a sled pass by the window of their house. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Madsen family of Cap Hope village, Greenland is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family on a day of dogsled travel. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family on a day of dogsled travel. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. The dog sled is on flat sea ice here: a giant iceberg is in the background at the ice edge.  (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen shouts commands to his dogs trying to get over a crack in the ice. Getting over these cracks can be very dangerous as there is always the very serious worry of falling in. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen stops to look for prey (seals, polar bears, musk ox, and geese) while the dogs take the moment to rest. Here he is looking for seals near the ice edge (a giant iceberg is in the open water in the background) The family has been traveling by dogsled for a good portion of the day. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). To break the monotony of dogsled travel, 9-year-old Martin Madsen runs alongside. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. Martin's sister Belissa sleeps through part of the journey behind her father on his sled. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 148).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a five-hour sled ride from Cap Hope, the Madsens arrive at their destination, a frozen lake below a glacier. They spent most of the night ice fishing (at the end of May the sun does not set this far above the Arctic Circle)  for artic char. The next afternoon, after another 6 hours of fishing everyone gets to enjoy Emil's dinner: steamed arctic char with curry and rice in the canvas tent. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a five-hour sled ride from Cap Hope, the Madsens arrive at their destination, a frozen lake below a glacier. Tired and hungry, everyone wolfs down Emil's musk ox stew with pasta in the canvas tent. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 149).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Arctic char caught in a glacial lake (the steel pikes on poles are for chopping holes in the ice). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a day of dogsled travel, Emil, Erika, and the children head out to fish for arctic char. After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, Erika yanks them out of the hole with a practiced motion.  Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 149).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil and Erika Madsen's nephew Julian bites down on an Arctic char, half in jest, for the camera because the fish is large, but locals say that children often eat small fish raw. It's said to "tickle their bellies." After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, they yank them out of the hole with a practiced motion. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 204).
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  • Greenlandic icebergs and adjacent mountains on the eastern coast across the sound from Cape Hope catch the late-night sunlight. During the summer at Cap Hope, the sun never actually disappears below the horizon, though it does dip briefly behind the high hills that surround the village. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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