Video Screen Grab - Slide on Lightbox. Author lying on his back in the foothills of Mount Snowdon, Wales cirxa 1986. I start with an excerpt from Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez. 'Lying flat on your back on Ellesmere Island on rolling tundra without animals, without human trace, you can feel the silence stretching all the way to Asia. The winter face of a musk ox, its unperturbed eye glistening in a halo of snow-encrusted hair, looks at you over a cataract of time, an image th