<b>Rob Wood</b> has been a professional architect, pioneering mountaineer, organizer of ocean-to-alpine expeditions, instructor of wilderness self-reliance at Strathcona Park Lodge, and a founding member of the Friends of Strathcona Park, a protest group that helped stop logging and mining in the park. He is also the author of <i>At Home in Nature: A Life of Unknown Mountains and Deep Wilderness</i>. Rob and his wife, Laurie, still live on Maurelle Island, British Columbia.