Credits Jess McHugh is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and TIME, among others. Her second nonfiction book, “Beg, Borrow, Scam,” is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. Most days on the glacier began the same. Whoever had been on polar bear watch the night before — hours of staring into the constant blizzard, rifle in hand — would make the morning coffee.