Atz Kilcher

30/06/2026

https://www.gofundme.com/f/alone-together-in-the-wilderness-documentary

Vietnam veteran and beloved star of “Alaska: The Last Frontier,” Atz Kilcher,… Joseph West needs your support for Alone Together In The Wilderness Documentary

30/06/2026

https://gofund.me/e532a7dcf

Vietnam veteran and beloved star of “Alaska: The Last Frontier,” Atz Kilcher,… Joseph West needs your support for Alone Together In The Wilderness Documentary

15/06/2026

This cow and her twins have been hanging around our house. Chances are she was born right here a few years back. Nothing like living in the middle of a wild game preserve. Having a nice pond also helps bring them in. Feeling blessed and grateful to be living in such a beautiful place.

13/06/2026

This mission is about something bigger than any one of us ……about giving and receiving, about service and about care.

It started with a man. Atz Kilcher. Vietnam veteran. Father. Teacher. Musician. Someone who came home from war to a country that wasn’t ready to welcome him. And he found his way to healing not through a doctor’s chair or medicine but in the raw unforgiving quiet of the Alaskan wilderness. A place that saved his life. A place he now calls Heroes Healing Homestead.

And now he is giving that place away to the next generation of Veterans still trying to find their way home. These men and women will ruck miles into the Alaskan backcountry on foot. Every footstep is a step of faith. Not a mission for duty this time but for healing and service here now. For a chance to find the gift in the wound. They face themselves alone without food or shelter and bring back the with stories.

These stories and songs this summerwill be filmed and produced ed by legendary Grammy producer Joe West

He will take the songs from the Alaskan wilderness to Nashville - weaving together the songs that Operation Encore artists find out there with the voice and spoken word of Atz Kilcher. Differentiate wars. Different generations. One healing.

We need your help to bring this rippling beacon of hope to the world.

Through a hard year of work and a grassroots movement, we have $45k and are now just short the last 20k to make this dream a reality.

Click the link in the bio to donate / givebutter.com/healing-heroes

22/05/2026

On my way back from jewels art show in Venice, I stopped in Seattle to meet my wife Bonnie and we went to visit her son Karl and his partner Crista in Ellensburg Washington.

10/05/2026

Last night I had the most amazing and real dream of Johnny Cash and his wife and they were arguing about both wanting me to sing with them. One of those dreams you wake up and you kind of feel different. Amazing

This is however not a dream - tomorrow on national radio on Chet 101.7 fm hosted by with my fellow veteran musicians (including Johnny Cash)

Check it out tomorrow !!

09/05/2026

It is hard to bring the fullness of how I feel into words yet. A few nights ago my daughter did this amazing thing and launched her art - surrounded by family in this city without cars and so far away from our routes in Alaska yet somehow all connected.

Not only that I was here with my son Shane for his birthday.

This will be a trip that I know I will reflect on for many years to come. For now just soaking in the moments. So here I share some candid traditional holiday snaps that I hope give you a taste.

This has come straight off the back of my lung surgery and recovery journey.

What a journey. What a life. All the ups and downs and roundabouts.

More family snaps to share - family reunions in Switzerland yodeling and song - stay tuned !!

❤️

27/04/2026

There are moments that come quiet… and if you’re paying attention, they tell you everything you need to know.

was singing the other day—sharing a song she had just written about making the most of the days we’re given. No big stage, no audience. Just brother and sister, a guitar, and that old truth we keep having to relearn:
�life is short… and relationships are what matters.

That song stayed with me as I packed my bags.

I am heading back to the country where I was born—Switzerland—with my eldest son . Going back to old ground, old family… tending roots.

From there, we’ll carry on—meeting Mossy and —and make our way to Venice.

Our girl is stepping across a mighty threshold… sharing her heart and her art with the world at the Biennale.

A father doesn’t have many words for this kind of moment… just gratitude, really. Deep gratitude.

The same lesson keeps showing up.

We’re all just walking each other home.
Family… old friends… new friends… the ones we’ve lost and the ones we’re still learning how to love better. This is the work. This is what matters.

If there’s anything I’ve learned—through the land, through the years, through the folks we’ve walked beside—it’s this:�connection is what heals us… and it’s what carries us forward.

So take the time. Make the call. Sit a little longer. Sing the song.

You don’t get those moments back.

—Atz