White is all that you can see. Crunch is the sound of the ice cracking beneath your feet. You are traveling through the Yukon alone, and slowly facing death. You are the man from Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”. Journeying between camps in an attempt to make it back to the boys the man encounters obstacles and makes foolish mistakes that lead to his eventual death. The three things that lead to the man being killed were his decisions to travel alone through the treacherous Yukon climate, building a fire under a tree, and being too prideful to listen to the old-timer’s advice. First of all, the start of the man’s gradual death was his preposterous and inexperienced choice to travel only with a dog back to camp. This choice led to several
