Gambell, Alaska, is one of the few points in North America where you can see Russia on a clear day. The land around the tiny town, on the northwest tip of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, is barren without a tree in sight — nothing grows over 6 inches high on the tundra. Most of the year the town is covered in snow. The local Yupik people follow their traditional subsistence lifestyle of hunting and eating whales, seals and other marine life, which helps connect them to their strong cultural roots and is more affordable than importing a typical Western diet to such an isolated place.