Natural Heroes TV

In the arctic, some adventures make the spirit dance.

Richard Nelson has spent years with the Inupiat and Koyukon Athabaskan Eskimo, learning how to subsist on the Arctic ice in Alaska.

Cultural anthropologist Richard Nelson lives in Alaska, studying wild places and the connections between people and nature. “Richard Nelson’s Alaska” introduces us to these people and places, and will leave you more curious about our Earth. Nelson motivates us to find our own ways to participate in preserving America’s wild places.