Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge

by Jill Fredston

Release Date: 03 October, 2001

Edition: Hardcover

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New Self-Realization

I borrowed this book from a friend, and now plan to buy one of my own, to keep. My husband and I are both teachers..which has given us summers to float (or row) and travel around our beautiful state every summer. So, relating to Jill's adventures has really given me new realization of how capable I can be in my adventures too.
We met Jill briefly while poling for a friend in the midst of an avalanche rescue in Turnagain Pass...she came across as so brave & solid..now that I've read her personal insight...its nice to know that as an Alaskan woman, heading into the great outdoors, I can still have some fear of "what may happen" but it shouldn't stop me from taking every moment in that I can. She's a great inspiration. Having traveled the Yukon River and Inside Passage, Jill tells it exactly as it is...great job! I can't wait for summer!

Incredible person - Incredible life

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.