Explorer. Naturalist. Writer.

He was one of the first Europeans to explore the glaciers, bays, and mountains of Alaska’s southeast coast, and even had a glacier named after him. He wrote of these Alaskan adventures in a book, including beautiful poetry and vivid descriptions of the landscapes he discovered, and telling of his close brush with death when he nearly tumbled over the edge of a towering mountainside cliff.

No, I’m not talking about John Muir.

Though that paragraph could almost describe Muir, as he did explore the southeast Alaskan coast in 1879 and 1880, these statements describe…