 This fight goes on for years. At 17, the trip that year is supposed to be canoeing 450 miles across the Northwest Territories. They drop us on Knowlton Lake mid-July. The ice had just broken up the week before. There are still icebergs in the water. The sun sets at 1, and you can watch the sunset go over the North Pole and come up on the east side at 4 a.m.