Chris Czajkowski grew up in England, travelled the world with a backpack for a decade, and arrived in Canada in 1979. Three years later she was building her first off-road cabin in the wilderness, about 150 kilometres inland from Bella Coola. In 1988 she moved to a higher location on a fly-in lake where she built three more cabins and created the Nuk Tessli Alpine Experience, an ecotourism business catering to hikers and naturalists. She has written ten books about her nearly thirty years of wilderness living.
At first she lived at Nuk Tessli full-time, but in 2006 she bought a derelict homestead at Ginty Creek, not too far from the mountain resort but with rough road access.
Ginty Creek is still quite remote, being three and a half hours’ drive from the nearest bank, traffic light, supermarket and cellphone tower. It is ideally located for Czajkowski to pursue her love of wilderness and the natural world. She has several more books in the works. For more information on her books and artwork, and an update of her adventures, visit her blog: www.wildernessdweller.ca.
As we go to press, we are pleased to announce that Nuk Tessli, the mountain resort, has been sold.