How Heavy is the Mountain

How Heavy Is The Mountain, an Alaskan tour manual/novel, is based upon the author's adventures as a professional tour guide in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. It combines a literary novel format with factual, true-to-life "tours" of the many diverse regions of the land.

How Heavy Is The Mountain is a palette of tones, styles and themes: within its pages a reader encounters narrative travel writing, miniature wildlife treatises, poetry, pointless drinking songs and highly personalized storytelling. Overall, the story is told with warmth, humor and affection for its subjects: in particular, the great land that is Alaska.