Yukon Wilderness Survivor Helen Klaben Kahn Today
From the March 2007 newsletter of The Explorers Club - Northern California Chapter (PDF file):
Helen Klaben Kahn has told the story she related to a crowded Chapter meeting hundreds of times. She says each time is different, a bit more reflective. After all, the event that catapulted her to celebrity happened 44 years ago. It was the winter of 1963, that she responded to a newspaper ad in Fairbanks, Alaska. She had come north the previous summer on a lark, responding to another classified for someone to share driving and expenses along the AlCan Highway, from New York City. She had never left the environs of her Brooklyn home; she was twenty-one; she was seeking adventure. She thought they must need a teacher in Fairbanks. (They did not.) ...
Helen spoke with charm and humor, exuding an optimism and joie d’vivre that was the enabling personality that carried her through the ordeal. She is a woman filled with curiosity; her experience has brought upon her an inner calm. ...
Helen Klaben Kahn held the assembled crowd in rapt attention as she remembered the experience she endured those many years ago. Her demeanor put all at ease to ask questions. It was a rewarding evening. She ‘roles with the punches’: due to traffic she was a bit late in arriving; as she scurried up the roadway from parking, a rogue wave hit the seawall drenching her from the rear. (I assure you she was wet!) Unabashed, she toweled her self, sat for a moment and proceeded to speak. Explorer stuff.
Sounds like a very neat lady. We wish her all the best!
IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO THAT CHUCK FOUND
YOU AND RALPH..
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Posted by: Halloween | 08/19/2011 at 11:35 PM
Thanks for your comments, Stephen! Yeah, I've considered all these things,
and did try to talk to him about it. But he shied away from telling me any
good reasons soooo..... I'll really never know! But it's entertaining now
(not back then!) to ruminate on reasons why. Thanks for your added thoughts!
;)
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