2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Mountain Literature Richard K.
Nelson was the host of the national public radio series, Encounters Nelson was an anthropologist who lived with Alaska Native tribes and spoke both Inupiag and Koyukon Based on Nelson's journals and interviews with Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, and others He listened to his Native Alaskan] teachers, immersed himself in their landscapes as a naturalist, and became, .