![]() ![]() The accident at the ice jam, when Nick and his brother are barely getting started, came as quite a shock. In Never Say Die, Nick asks the same question and gets the same answer. “Because I’m afraid of heights,” he deadpanned. On terra firma, I asked the pilot why he had flown so low to the ground. That seemed strange and somewhat alarming. For most of the flight, over the open tundra, it felt like we weren’t much more than five hundred feet up. Yes, just like Nick Thrasher did in the novel. Check out this photo I took after rafting through these rapids.ĭid you fly into the headwaters of the Firth via bush plane? It’s the Firth River that I featured in Never Say Die. Both river trips were eleven days long and ended at the Arctic Ocean. The third time I flew into Yellowknife to raft the Burnside River in the territory of Nunavut. ![]() A few years later, in 2003, I flew into Inuvik to raft the Firth River on the north slope of Canada’s Yukon Territory. ![]() The first time was on a road trip with my wife from our home in Durango, Colorado all the way to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories, only 60 miles from the Arctic Ocean. It wasn’t long before I was thinking I might write a story involving a grolar bear, and have it take place in the Canadian Arctic. The first one to appear in the wild was killed in Canada’s Arctic by an American trophy hunter in 2006. For starters, is the grolar bear-half grizzly, half polar bear-for real?Īmazingly, yes. ![]()
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