I woke to the sound of a large brown bear crackling through the brush near my tent. It was early April and I was guiding a small natural history film crew on an island in Southeast Alaska. At the beginning of three weeks of filming, our primary goal was to capture video of brown bears feeding on a...

Shortly after graduating high school, my buddy Ed got run over by a truck while riding a bicycle. We’d been planning a mountain goat hunt up the Taku River near where Ed’s family had a cabin. I figured the hunt was off. The accident was the sort that would have killed most people, but Ed walked it...