You and three friends take two flights, including a small-plane charter deep inside America’s most remote and largest national park, within the Arctic Circle. You, your buddies, and your backpacks plan to travel back to civilization..

It is 1992. No cell phones. No GPS. Gates of the Arctic National Park has no trails. But there are grizzly bears and the river you follow and cross regularly starts out at three feet wide but changes character drastically.

Accompanied by photographs, J. Robert Harris narrates his story on a Parks Channel video. Check it out to meet an extraordinary man. He tells many more stories in Way Out There, one of the best adventure books I have been fortunate to read. I mention it again here in case you missed my review.