 Up to this point, however, people had walked only on the icefield's margins.In early 1936, a 27-year-old Swiss immigrant and future state senator named Yule Kilcher disembarked in Seward.He was headed for Kachemak Bay, where he intended to take up residence, but was so intrigued by the icefield he had seen from the steamship that he vowed to cross it before long.