In the creaking, whispering world of rock and ice, where fragile vegetation can never hope to soften or obscure the uncompromising austerity of the environment, he discovered a light that diffused in eerie blues and purples, strata that showed the marks of enormous, relentless pressure, and crevasses of milky opacity. 1 Ron MacGregor, The Edmonton JournalJohn Benjamin or J. B. (Jack) Taylor was born and grew up in