Free Death by Exposure by Eric Walters

Copyright © 2004 by Eric Walters and Kevin Spreekmeester
    Second Edition 2007
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    Editor: Michael Carroll
Production and Design: Jen Hamilton
Front Cover Photograph: Kevin Spreekmeester
Author Photograph (Eric Walters): Paula Esplen
    Printed and bound in Canada by AGMV Marquis Imprimeur
    Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
    Walters, Eric, 1957-
    Death by exposure : an interactive mystery / Eric Walters and Kevin Spreekmeester.
    ISBN 978-1-55002-632-0
    I. Spreekmeester, Kevin, 1960- II. Title.
    PS8595.A598D41 2007    jC813’.54    C2007-901095-4

    We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
    Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.
    J.Kirk Howard, President
    Visit Eric Walters at
www.ericwalters.net
and Kevin Spreekmeester at
www.bluedoorphoto.com
.
    The authors especially thank Tourism Saskatchewan and the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture for their help with the contents of this book.
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To this beautiful country
of Canada and the undiscovered treasures within.
    â€“E RIC W ALTERS
    To my wife, Sue, my son, Ben, and my daughter, Katie.
You continually support my dream of travelling to wonderful,
faraway places with my camera and pen, and love me so
much that the moment I leave I can’t wait to be with
you again. What a fantastic life I have!
    â€“K EVIN S PREEKMEESTER

NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS
    Death by Exposure
is a unique hybrid book that fits within no set box. It combines mystery fiction with photography, geography, mapping, history, secret codes, and Internet exploration. In short, there’s a lot to do in this book. At the heart of the story is the puzzle of who the man in the glacier is and how he came to be there. The key to the riddle might be found in the latitude and longitude of photographs the iceman appears to have taken. So, after reading the story and studying the photographs, you’re encouraged to do a little geography sleuthing and mapping in “Fun with Latitude and Longitude.” There may be a different number code that supplies the answers to the enigma of the iceman, and you’re invited to take a look at “Fun with Secret Codes” to see if you can crack the cipher.
    But there’s more! At the end of the book you’ll find notes on the photographs and some great Web sites you can visit to learn more about various places and things in Canada. And, if you have a creative knack, take a look again at the photographs and the fragments of writing, get some paper, and see if you can finish the iceman’s story about each picture. The important things, though, are to explore, experiment, create, and enjoy!

DEATH BY EXPOSURE
    â€œI’m not a helpless little kid, Mom!” Ben complained.
    â€œI know you’re not, but you
are
only twelve and your sister is only