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John Muir was a prominent Scottish-American biologist, author, ecological philosophy, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early supporter for the conservation of wilderness in the US of America. He was also called "John of the Mountains" and "Dad of the National Parks."

In this essay, Muir tells his experience of climbing to the top of a tree and riding it for hours through a wild Sierra storm. As he writes, “the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.”

In the book, John Muir recounts a profound experience he had while exploring the glaciers of southeastern Alaska alongside a small dog named Stickeen. Muir takes listeners on a captivating journey, vividly illustrating their harrowing adventure crossing an unstable glacier amid an unrelenting storm. Throughout the narrative, Muir's deep admiration for Stickeen's courage and tenacity in the face of danger shines through, as the dog bravely persevered across increasingly dangerous glacier formations and weather conditions despite his diminutive size.

The classic dog story Stickeen is John Muir's account of what happened on an Alaskan glacier with a little dog named Stickeen. One day, Muir went exploring a large glacier during a blizzard, with Stickeen in tow. They became stranded, and the only way out was across a precarious ice bridge. Both man and dog escaped, and this triumph changed Stickeen from a rather aloof canine into a devoted companion. Muir called his adventure with Stickeen "the most memorable of all my wild days”, and wrote that the little dog enlarged his life by extended its boundaries.