Frank has endured many ups and downs in his life. In 1970 he found himself in Argentina where he met Sofia, eventually taking her home to Germany as his wife.

Here they lost their first child, a son named Andreas. There followed a "fun and crazy" life of backpacking and hitchhiking across Europe. "He was exciting and funny. We used to laugh all the time," says Sofia.

In 1975 the young couple arrived in the Yukon in search of a place of "...peace and solitude and the right environment for Frank to pursue his work as a sculptor." But the far north was not for Sofia and after many moves, each time further south, they ended up in Houston. Frank's work required big trees - lots of them and acreage was going cheap in the Bulkley Valley. He built his dream home out of his logs and filled it with large carvings and exquisitely designed furniture, all hand-hewn. It was a showhome of talent. Their daughter Amai was born during this happy time.

Then grief struck again. In 1983, the Ebermanns were one of five families to lose their home to the wild flames of the Swiss Fire. Taking what they could in the few minutes before evacuation, Sofia grabbed a chair her husband had carved for her. It is the only reminder of what they used to have.