Killed the hitman Donald Welsh (see the previous story ), Ken is hired by force as a sailor on the New England , a whaler bound for the waters of the Bering Strait.
Having survived the shipwreck of the New England (see the ending of "Caccia sul mare" KP N. 9 ), Ken, the Eskimo sailor Nanuk, Captain Chase and Laura, his wife, fight for survival among the ice of northern Alaska.
