Susan Oakey-Baker is a teacher, guide, painter and a writer and holds degrees in French literature and Language Education. She has twenty years of outdoor experience, having spent time ski touring, mountaineering, rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, whitewater rafting and biking all over the world. She has worked as a nationally certified hiking guide in Africa, Nepal and North America and has guided more than 100 people, ranging in age from sixteen to eighty-five, to the top of Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, for the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia. Her photographs and writing have been published in Pique magazine, the Alpine Club of Canada Gazette and the Canadian Alpine Journal. She grew up in Vancouver and now lives in Whistler, British Columbia, with her husband, Joe, and their six-year-old son, Sam. Her first book, Finding Jim, will be available in October 2013.