The Ones Who Walk Toward the Mountains

What happens when a man sees too much and refuses to look away?

Tens of millions of people watched a penguin walk toward certain death.

You know the clip. Werner Herzog. Antarctica. A single Adélie penguin breaks from the colony and heads inland. Not toward the water where life is. Not back to the breeding grounds. Toward the mountains.

Into five thousand kilometers of white nothing.

The scientists didn’t stop him. He…