International experts collect alpine fungi in Beartooth Mountains of Montana

Monday, September 8, 2008 - 10:07 in Earth & Climate

Armed guards once kept polar bears away while Cathy Cripps collected mushrooms and fungi on the island of Svalbard between Norway and the North Pole. Another time, Cripps encountered musk-oxen while gathering fungi in Greenland.

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