Hunting The Alaskan High Arctic - Trade Edition: He has faced
man-eating lions in Africa and has hunted in the
world's most challenging terrain, but Haugen came
closest to death in an Arctic storm. Alaska - a
hunter's paradise set in an unforgiving climate -
required Haugen to sharpen his prowess as he pursued
polar bear, caribou, grizzly, wolverine, moose, Dall
sheep, tundra wolf and white fox.
Stationed as teachers in the remotest parts of
Alaska, Haugen and his wife spent three years in Point
Lay and four years among the Inupiat Eskimos in the
remote village of Anaktuvuk Pass, teaching the
children of one of the world's last true hunting
cultures. Invited to hunt with the Eskimos of the
Alaskan Arctic, he encountered caribou, bear and sheep
that had never before set eyes on a human, so remote
were the areas he frequented.
This uplifting book is for those who would scale near
vertical cliffs after Dall ram... hunt in whiteout
conditions as windchill dips off the charts... race
against time to stalk and field dress in agonizing
cold... and risk life and limb for the thrill of the
hunt.
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