Roads Less Travelled - Alaska
Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler goes wild in Alaska. In the rugged Wrangell St Elias National Park, he rides a mountain bike down a glacier, catches salmon with a wheel and slips 40 metres into a giant ice crevasse before realising he'll have to climb back out. On the edge of the Bering Sea, Tony encounters King Island Eskimos who are partial to a bit of walrus, vacuums the bottom of the ocean to find nuggets of gold and follows the trail of the first people to settle North America. Heading south, Tony tracks down elusive sea otters, hunts giant razor clams and on Kodiak Island gets up close and personal with the world's biggest bears.
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Lonely Planet founder travelled the Asian overland trail with his wife Maureen in the early 1970s and wrote about it in the first ever Lonely Planet guide - Across Asia On The Cheap. It was the start of a company that now has over 500 staff, 300 authors and sells millions of books a year. Tony has contributed to dozens of Lonely Planet guides over the past three decades and continues to travel every chance he gets. This year a film crew followed him on his travels in Laos and Alaska.
