Oberholtzer – Facets – Explorer – Slideshow

Toward Magnetic North

Ernest Carl Oberholtzer and Billy Magee traveled alone and unsupported in their 18-foot Chestnut Guide Special across wild, unpopulated, and largely unmapped territory, from Le Pas, Manitoba, to Nueltin Lake and Hudson Bay, completing their historic trip on November 5 after a freezing paddle through snow storms down the length of Lake Winnipeg.

In the hundred and forty-four days of this epic 2,000-mile journey, Oberholtzer recorded landscapes, people, and vanishing life ways in maps, a journal, and astonishing black and white photographs, using a six-pound Graflex camera.