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COLD YET?

Frequent Your Shot contributor Christian Aslund captured this cold-inducing portrait of Renny Bijoux, a youth ambassador from the Seychelles on a Greenpeace North Pole expedition. Aslund said, “The team, most of them without any previous polar experience, skied to the North Pole and lowered a capsule 4.3km onto the sea bed, containing signatories to their campaign to protect the Arctic from industrial development.”
PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTIAN ASLUND, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT