"Where glaciers meet mountains in Canada's Yukon Territory, some peaks jut from the ice like islands in a frozen sea. These crags, called nunataks, may appear barren, but biologist David Hik, the skier at far right, has discovered that collectively they harbor hundreds of species, from delicate alpine forget-me-nots to foraging mammals."

(Text and photograph from "Nunataks: Icebound Islands of Life," December 1998, National Geographic magazine)