Film opens with a travelogue along the Inside Passage and on mainland Alaska and shows various views of the following towns: Ketchikan, Nome, Fort Davis, Wainright and Point Barrow. Sequences on the following activities: traders purchasing Red Fox skins; Scotty Allen posing with his racing dogs; Eskimos (Yupik?) and a reindeer herd with an Eskimo (Yupik?) family posing. A mother nurses two babies at the same time. Men hoist whale aboard ship and cleanse the carcass. The camera ship chases two polar bears. One is shot and hoisted aboard ship. Shots of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear and of the Belvidere. Portrait of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Stefansson's party removes supplies from the Belvidere which is frozen in near Herschel Island. Dr. Anderson leaves by dog sled for the land of the Blond Eskimo (Inuit). A group leaves camp at Marlin's Point to look for the lost Karluk, Stefansson's flag ship; cut to Karluk frozen in 65 miles from Wrangell Island. Men take off over near impassible ice for Wrangell Island. Eight men failed to make it. Shot of portrait of Robert A. Bartlett, the skipper of Karluk, who went as far as Siberia to look for help.~Views of Petropovlovsk, Kamchatka Peninsula and of the arrival of Governor Manamahoff on an official visit. The Governor meets members of Barlett's crew as he comes out of church. The Governor poses for the camera as do two Cossack officers. Views of Uts, Kamchatka Peninsula, a salmon cannery, and Japanese unloading supplies. In Anadyr, the most northern town on Siberian coast, the Governor attends a fur sale. Sequence on Kamchatka Grizzly being chased and dying after getting shot. Sequence on Koriaki natives (Indigenous Peoples) at Baron Korff Bay, a traditional society on the Siberian coast untouched by modernity. Shots of huts on high platforms, natives (Indigenous Peoples) sitting about, and posing for the camera. Final shot of native (Indigenous) girl, bare to the waist, executing a dance in the snow. Sequences on native (Indigenous) life in Siberia; deer, men and large herds of reindeer on Kariginski Island; Marko Native boats assembled with bark rope. Sequence on the nest and eggs of the Pacific Eider, the Arctic Tern, and the Squaw duck. The ship King and Winge waits time of departure at Indian Point, Siberia. More on Eskimo (Inuit) families: Churck Chee Indians (known as Chukchee or Chukchi Indigenous Peoples) at East Cape, Siberia, posing, displaying frame of boat made out of driftwood and rawhide, wrestling, and having tea. Two men sit by a pile of polar bear skulls, a monument with religious significance within this native (Indigenous) culture.~Trader Carpendale displays White Fox skins. While King and Winge is stuck in ice, men go walrus hunting, chase animals, shoot some and hoist them up on board the ship. Two baby walruses are fished out of the water and fed milk on the deck of the ship. Men try to repair broken propellor of King and Winge. Shot of Rogers Harbour, Wrangell Island. Sequence on first camp of survivors, tent, Red Ensign, men leaving camp with rescuers. Shots of rescuers leaving the ship for the second survivor camp, arriving at camp and leaving with party. Shots of Mr. Swenson, Mr. McKinley, Bert McConnell and Mr. Hadley. Men board King and Winge. Shots of Chief Engineer Munro, Fred W. Maurer, Robert Templeman. Shot of the rescued party posing. View of Bear in mid-ocean and of Captain Bartlett coming aboard King and Winge from Bear. Final shot of the midnight sun. <93mn>
