THIN ICE ON CANADA'S EPIC ICE ROAD, TRUCKERS SNEER AT 20-HOUR NIGHTS AND MINUS 70 DEGREE STORMS. THE ONE THING THEY FEAR ... A WARM DAY

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THE TEMPERATURE: 10 BELOW ZERO. THE LOCATION: the middle of frozen Waite Lake in the Northwest Territories, 1000 miles north of the U.S. border. I'm with six Canadian ice-road experts on the shoulder of a highway that curves from the powder-frosted shoreline forest, across the lake and into the distance. In the pale light of winter, even the sun seems frozen.