Winter Wonderland: Ice Canoe Races In Quebec

The object of the race is to cross the St Lawrence and return back. The elite men's division completes this course twice. The other divisions do it only once. Most people in the world, Quebecois or otherwise, could not get even 500 feet across the moving ice floes, and are content to watch from viewing areas high above, on the pier and the riverbanks. (Image by Benoit Gilbert; Text by Lena Katz, JustLuxe.com.)