Alaska Naked Swim
« Back to Public Land - The BLM-The Big Open, August 2001 National Geographic Magazine
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Frigid waters greet a swimmer cooling off in the lake after a sauna at Toolik Resarch Station in the North Slope...The research station above the Arctic Circle houses scientists who study everything from the effect of light on plant nutrients by counting root hairs to mercury levels in the air recorded since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
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