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Summary: Incredible person - Incredible life
Review: Wow.Jill Fredston is the kind of person we all would like to be, living the life we all would like to live. She certainly has not wasted any of it. In the winter she and her husband work as avalanche experts among the big Alaska avalanches and run most of the mountain rescue operations in Alaska. In summer, they disappear for as much as 3 months at a time on extended sea kayaking expeditions along the arctic coasts of North America, Norway and Spitzbergen. After a life of hundreds of close encounters with big bears, dangerous ocean crossings, big waves, big storms and avalanches, yes, she certainly has something to say. While most other people collect their sponsorships, do a 2-month expedition, then go on a speaking and writing tour, Jill and Doug live it as their life. Only after 15 years of adventures, she collects it all into a book. This is nature writing and adventure writing at its best.
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Summary: Positive,fluid...an adventure book sans adrenaline
Review: Written by a dedicated outdoors prfessional who's in love with life and is driven by the experience not the mission or "prize".
The rowing community as well as the adventure community should take note. She indeed has a rich rowing background in 8s, but never lost the joy of rowing realized in her childhood. As far as her outdoor credentials, she has the essential NOLS beginnings and then a daily working reality in her profession as an artic specialist
which exceeds mere experiencials...let alone her "recreational"
wanderings on water of a vast artic realm. How many of us would love to join them, how many of us could? But, I have hopes that this book will inspire many to investigate the possibilities of using rowing as a lifetime vehicle for backcountry exploration on appropriate waters (with appropriate prepairations) as her partner discovered by 1994.
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