a true story of friendship, tragedy, and survival in the Alaskan wilderness
A memoir in which wilderness guide Lynn Schooler, having chosen a solitary life due to adolescent scoliosis and the death of a woman he loved, shares the story of his decade-long friendship with Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino with whom he embarked on a quest to photograph the rare and elusive glacier bear--an adventure marred by the death of Hoshino in a bear attack.
