Photo of the Day 391

Kayaker and Icebergs, Qaanaaq, Greenland, 2006

Photograph by David McLain

An Inuit man hunting narwhal looks ant-size in his kayak (center-bottom) amid towering icebergs in this aerial view of a fjord near Qaanaaq, Greenland. The highly specialized and dangerous technique of harpooning narwhal from a kayak is practiced by only a handful of people in Northern Greenland.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Last Days of the Ice Hunters," January, 2006, National Geographic magazine)