Project Outdoor - An Iceland Memory
- Text by HUCK HQ
- Photography by Ed Andrews and Michael Fordham
Huck is proud to present Project Outdoor, a new series of dispatches from the wild.
In this first film, An Iceland Memory, polar explorer Ben Saunders and marine biologist Monty Halls share their elemental motivations for plunging into the extremes of nature.
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