![]() It would be their third and most ambitious trip, backpacking over Alaska’s Brooks Range to the headwaters of the mighty Hulahula River, where they would assemble a folding canoe and paddle to the Arctic Ocean. So he decided to take Aidan back to Alaska one final time before she left home. ![]() ![]() Under the supervision of Edna, Heimo’s Yupik Eskimo wife, Aidan grew more confident in the woods.Ĭampbell knew that in traditional Eskimo cultures, some daughters earned a rite of passage usually reserved for young men. Despite windchills of 50 degrees below zero, father and daughter ventured out daily to track, hunt, and trap. ![]() She even agreed to return a few months later to help the Korths work their traplines and hunt for caribou and moose. So when James Campbell’s cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds of mosquitoes, the threat of grizzlies, bathing in an ice-cold river, and hours of grueling labor peeling and hauling logs?īut once there, Aidan embraced the wild. The powerful and affirming story of a father's journey with his teenage daughter to the far reaches of AlaskaĪlaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. ![]()
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