The Break Up

Capt. Jack Robertson, his dog Skooter, and several others journey to Alaska in winter by steamship via the Inside Passage and Prince William Sound. A smaller boat takes them past Harvard Glacier, Chugash Range, and the Great Divide. Continuing by canoe, raft, and dogsled, the group heads northward past Mt. McKinley. In the spring, the breakup of the frozen river permits a 1,200-mile trip on the Tanana and Yukon Rivers to the Bering Sea, visiting Eskimos along the way. The next destination is the Alaska Peninsula, with its Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and spawning salmon, followed by a last stop on the Kenai peninsula before the coming of winter and a turn toward home.