Jill A. Fredston

Jill Fredston is the Director of the Alaska Mountain Safety Center, Inc. and former Director of the Alaska Avalanche Forecast Center. She has spent 30 years evaluating avalanche hazard, predicting avalanches, triggering them with explosives, teaching potential victims how to stay alive, and leading rescue efforts in Alaska. She is also the author of Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches and Rowing to Latitude: Journeys along the Arctic's Edge.