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Kim Heacox

Specialties: 
Author, Photographer
Award-winning writer, photographer, and conservationist Kim Heacox has lived in Alaska for 25 years. He has written four books for National Geographic, most recently An American Idea: The Making of the National Parks. Kim is also the author of Alaska Light and the memoir The Only Kayak: A Journey Into the Heart of Alaska. His photography has appeared in National Geographic magazine.

Upcoming Trips

Alaska Family Voyage
Aug 05 - 12, 2012
Alaska's Inside Passage
Aug 12 - 19, 2012
Journey to Antarctica
Nov 27 - Dec 10, 2012
 Dec 07 - 20, 2012
Land of the Polar Bears
Jun 29 - Jul 09, 2012
 Jul 06 - 16, 2012

Field Notes from Previous Expeditions

Alaska's Inside Passage

By Kim Heacox
April 2004

It began with the Ice Age—or so it seemed—as we motored deep into Tracy Arm, a 25-mile-long rock-ribbed vault festooned with waterfalls, tidewater glaciers, and diamond blue icebergs. Sunshine s ...Read More

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