This Tlingit-led Experience Is Redefining Alaska's Bear Tours With Guides Who Share Generations of Local Knowledge

This Tlingit-led Experience Is Redefining Alaska's Bear Tours With Guides Who Share Generations of Local Knowledge

John and Marilyn Hillman of Wilderness Island Tours offer an experience that combines world class wildlife viewing with thousands of years of traditional knowledge.A large brown bear spotted in Alaska.Credit: Sharyn Umaña-Angers/Travel + LeisureOn Alaska’s Chichagof Island, near Icy Strait Point, visitors have a rare chance to witness one of the highest concentrations of brown bears in the world. In some areas, densities reach up to three Alaska…