# Heimo Korth

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{{short description|American outdoorsman}}

'''Heimo Korth''' is an American outdoorsman. He and his wife Edna are among the few permanent residents of the [Arctic National Wildlife Refuge](/source/Arctic_National_Wildlife_Refuge). They live along the [Coleen River](/source/Coleen_River), just south of the [Brooks Range](/source/Brooks_Range), and move between cabins seasonally. Striving to be self-reliant, they hunt and fish for their own food.

The Korths' lifestyle came to public attention with James Campbell's 2004 book ''[The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness](/source/The_Final_Frontiersman)''.<ref>{{cite web|author=John Martin, publisher, Vice Magazine |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/07/vbs.heimo.alaska |title=Alaskan family lives isolated life in vast wildlife refuge |publisher=CNN.com |date= |accessdate=2020-04-04}}</ref> In 2009, [VBS.tv](/source/VBS.tv) produced ''Surviving Alone in Alaska'', a documentary film showing Korth's lifestyle.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0rZn8HFmQ |title=Surviving Alone in Alaska |publisher=YouTube |date=2012-04-25 |accessdate=2020-04-04}}</ref>
He was also featured among others on PBS's "Braving Alaska" in 1992.

Reliant on [bush pilot](/source/bush_flying)s to transport him in and out of his home in [the bush](/source/The_Bush_(Alaska)), he was incidentally featured in ''[Flying Wild Alaska](/source/Flying_Wild_Alaska)'' 2011 - 2012, as Korth had hired the series' protagonist Jim Tweto to fly him out of [Fairbanks](/source/Fairbanks%2C_Alaska).<ref>''Flying Wild Alaska'' season 1, episode 4</ref>

Heimo, Edna and their family, alongside 4 other families, make up the Discovery series ''[The Last Alaskans](/source/The_Last_Alaskans)'' which premiered in 2015.

Heimo and his wife are briefly discussed in the book, "Warriors Creed," when two Pararescue Jumpers drop in during a snow storm to provide medical assistance to Edna, and transport them both to a medical facility.

Heimo's first name is of Finnish origin and means "tribe" in English.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heimo - Milloin on Heimon nimipäivä?|url=https://www.nimipaivat.fi/heimo.html|access-date=2020-11-12|website=www.nimipaivat.fi|language=fi}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Heimo-Korth-Fan-Club/235442092169 Heimo Korth Fan Club] - the Korths' official Facebook page

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