Glacier Pilot Author:Beth Day Glacier Pilot — In 1932, when Bob Reeve climbed off a freighter at Valdez, Alaska, he was broke, sick and without a plane to fly. — From those grim beginnings, he built up a successful commercial airline operating in "the worst weather in the world"-along the fog-shrouded chain of Aleutian Islands-and became known throughout the territory by many ... more »names: "Half-Bird," the greatest rough terrain pilot of our continent and "Mr. Alaska."« less