Through the Eye of the Glacier

Through the Eye of the Glacier - A 12,000-Year Old Mystery is Revealed Inside an Alaskan Glacier. 10,000 B.C. In the receding ice age of the vast Tanana River Valley of Interior Alaska, mammoth hunters encounter a mysterious and beautiful treasure. Rediscovered deep within a glacier during the heyday of Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction, two Athabaskan students from the University of Alaska share an adventure of scientific and cultural discovery in the midst of stunning, ethereal beauty of Alaska. This is a story of music, brilliant auroras, and luminescent moonlight on crisp Alaska snowfields. It is a tale of hope and shared dreams that will be told around the campfires of a thousand worlds.

Michael Pollen was raised in Sitka, Alaska and graduated from the University of Alaska in biology. Mike and his wife Peggy built their own home and raised their two sons in Fairbanks where he worked for three years on the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. In 1980, the Pollens founded an environmental laboratory with branches in Fairbanks, Anchorage, Prudhoe Bay, and an affiltiate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has served as President of the Water Environment Federation, a professional scientific organization with over 40,000 members in 90 countries. An avid outdoorsman, Mike enjoys sharing stories of Alaska.