Irene J HuntleyIrene J. Huntley was a child when her father worked away from home for several years and then went on his epic trek, through the wilderness of northern British Columbia. She lived with his story as she grew up.

Many years later, when her ather was dealing with dementia and waiting to go into a Care Home, he came to live with her for 6 months. Huntley projected her father's slides onto a screen for him. He could no longer keep things in a time sequence, but still had clear memories of names and places. So she wrote down as much as she could as he remembered the details.

Then she made a video of his trek with some of his slides and wrote a narrative to match the images with information from his diary and maps. She shared the video with her extended family and some friends.

Years later, Huntley decided that the story was worth sharing with a larger audience. To do so, she knew the story needed expanding to include the dynamics between the two men that weren't included in the video, so she set out to write a book. It was a steep learning curve but deeply enjoyable process of bringing the story to life once more. Read More Read Less