Kim Heacox

A tale of friendship, risk, and hope, of coming home and learning to live gracefully among the deep blue glaciers of Alaska. Finalist for the 2006 Pen Center USA Western award in creative nonfiction.

“In this elegant and moving memoir, Kim Heacox writes of his years living and working in Glacier Bay . . . Through it all, he wrestles with the questions that plague all conscientious outdoor users: the never ceasing encroachment of untrammeled spaces, our relationship with the wild, and our relationship with one another. He often draws from thinkers, explorers, philosophers, and environmental writers of the past. This is a thoughtful and penetrating work of outdoor literature that clearly ranks among Alaska's finest.” ―National Outdoor Book Awards, 2020

“[A] tender chronicle of a miracle in process, with glints of its rarity thrown by the handful from these pages.“ —Kirkus Reviews



“Writer and photographer Heacox delivers a genuine, deeply moving account of the past twenty-five years he has spent living in Glacier Bay, Alaska.” —Publishers Weekly



"Heacox creates a nicely balanced environmental portrait of Alaska's ice-cut coast.“ —Booklist