1. But he did live on an ice island near Greenland on two occasions when he was in college. 2. I walked past a reservoir in the spring and saw an ice island. 3. I saw my spring reservoir, with its ice island melting, reappearing, melting, reappearing. 4. In photographs from that day, the stranded couple appear as two small specks on an ice island carrying them implacably to their doom. 5. The huge ice island drifted steadily closer to shore, only to be thrust back out into the current by the tailrace of a hydroelectric plant. 6. Their ice island carried the Stantons tantalizingly close to shore, close enough that the would-be rescuers lining the bank urged Eldridge to jump. |