"Adrift on an Ice Pan," by Wilfred T. Grenfell

"Adrift on an Ice Pan," by Wildred T. Grenfell is one of my most favorite short stories. Several sites offer it for free online reading.

On Easter Sunday in1908, Grenfell, a doctor, must see a patient near Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula. He cuts across a bay to shorten a few miles, but the ice breaks up beneath him and one of his dogs drowns. Grenfell and his remaining dogs climb onto an ice pan and drift out to sea. How he spends the next day and night is a testimony to man’s will to survive.