The Final Frontiersman
Deep in Alaska’s Arctic wilderness, more than 200 miles from the nearest settlement, Heimo Korth has built a life most can scarcely imagine. Originally from Wisconsin, he left behind the ordinary in his twenties and embraced a nomadic, subsistence existence where survival depends on the seasons, migrating caribou, swollen rivers, and sheer endurance.
In The Final Frontiersman—the inspiration for Discovery Channel’s acclaimed documentary series The Last Alaskans—Heimo’s cousin James Campbell tells the story of the Korth family’s remarkable way of life. From waiting weeks for supply planes and listening to the crackle of distant radio voices to sledding in subzero cold and hunting for sustenance, Campbell captures both the daily rhythms and extraordinary challenges of a family living at the edge of the world. Their lives are shaped not only by adventure and self-reliance but also by tragedy, resilience, and the ever-present threat of nature’s extremes.
At once a portrait of survival and a meditation on freedom, The Final Frontiersman reveals a vanishing way of life—an Arctic frontier that still endures, for now, as one of the last truly wild places on earth.
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"Campbell makes the case that an increasingly urban America -- and its desires for oil, for timber, for neat and packaged wilderness -- is killing and, worse, forgetting the frontier we once worshiped."
New York Times
“The inspiration for The Last Alaskans—the hit documentary series on the Discovery+—James Campbell’s inimitable insider account of a family’s nomadic life in the unshaped Arctic wilderness “is an icily gripping, intimate profile that stands up well beside Krakauer’s classic [Into the Wild], and it stands too, as a kind of testament to the rough beauty of improbably wild dreams.”’
Men’s Journal
"[One of] the greatest life-or-death tales ever told."
Esquire
