Most people haven’t had a childhood like Skye Skinner.
Her parents, Su and Burt Lum, decided in 1961 to drive all the way from Boonton, New Jersey, to Alaska to start a new life. Alan Whicker, a reporter from the BBC, interviewed them after they had been living in the freezing wilderness for a year.
Su and Burt were a secretary and teacher, respectively, and both eagerly made the decision to live out in the wild. “These are things that have long appealed to us as a change from this hurried modern life,” Burt told Whicker…