On Building a Raft
Abstract Colorado, Boulder, undertook a solitary trek of nearly 300 miles through the Brooks Range, some of the most rugged and remote mountains in Alaska. Beginning at the Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass, Cooper hiked 120 miles with a 100-pound backpack to the Arrigetch Peaks, where he built a log...
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Abstract Colorado, Boulder, undertook a solitary trek of nearly 300 miles through the Brooks Range, some of the most rugged and remote mountains in Alaska. Beginning at the Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass, Cooper hiked 120 miles with a 100-pound backpack to the Arrigetch Peaks, where he built a log raft from spruce trees (he had never rafted before in his life) and floated 160 miles down the Alatna River to the Athabascan village of Allaket. Certainly one of the great solo wilderness feats of all time, Cooper’s perilous journey ranks with some of the folk epics of the American West. |
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