Introducing Art Mortvedt….

Rumour has it that grizzly bears are frightened of Art Mortvedt. But if there’s the odd one that isn’t, Art will have it covered. A survival expert and trainer based in Alaska, Art has worked as a National Park Ranger and while teaching Eskimo students in the village of Shungnak, north of the Arctic Circle, he learned subsistence, survival and dog mushing techniques from local native elders.

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With six expeditions to the central Arctic Ocean – based out of northern Greenland – a solo Cessna flight through the Canadian High Arctic, expeditions to Spitzbergen and Siberia, and more than twenty expeditions to Antarctica, Art now consults on a variety of polar logistical issues. He is an Alaska Registered Guide and a highly experienced bush pilot – and after landing a single engine Cessna 185 at the South Pole, is now planning a solo Cessna flight to the North Pole.

Art lives at 67N155W, in the western Brooks Range, with his wife Damaris, and owns the Peace of Selby Wilderness Lodge – a name that perfectly reflects the ethos of the place and leaves guests pledging to return time and time again.

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Access to Selby Wilderness Lodge in the Alaskan Bush is by float-plane only, which naturally Art flies. Guests can spend a couple of weeks at the lodge, flying to fishing spots, learning bush skills, camping, building river floats, fishing, snow-shoeing, ice fishing, hunting, tracking the caribou migration, learning about subsistence living….or just enjoying the peace. Art and his wife Damaris will tailor-make your stay according to your needs.

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Art’s survival skills really caught our imagination at Ooh and so I caught up with him during preparations for that North Pole solo flight in his Cessna 185. My interview with Art will follow shortly on the blog, and I’ll share Art’s advice on what do with a grizzly bear foot, and what NOT to do with a moose hide…..More soon. 

In the meantime, visit www.alaskawilderness.net to find out more about one of the most peaceful places on earth.

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