The costly U.S. safety lobby Alaskans might find this hard to believe, but the one of the latest of national dangers comes from people getting out of their cars, trucks and motorhomes […]
Nannyism
Truest danger
What you don’t know can kill you Twenty-nine-year-old Nick Vizzini had a passion for skiing. “I ski a lot,” he wrote on the Facebook page of the Four Wheel Camper Project […]
1 safe, 1 dead
Rescue efforts save one, but cold kills another Update: This story has been updated to include the names of the rescued climbers as reported on the Facebook page of Alpine Club Malaysia […]
A dangerous place
Death stalking two mountaineers on Denali With the temperature near the summit of North America’s tallest mountain pushing toward 30 degrees below zero on this evening, hopes were fading for two unidentified […]
Death season
The deadly season has begun again in Alaska with a climber dead in Denali National Park and Preserve and a group of glacier-crossing skiers saved in Kenai Fjords National Park thanks to […]
Death by selfie
The killer in your hand Beware: Scientists are now warning that your so-called “smartphone” could kill you. They did not specify whether this is because the smartphone is smart and dislikes […]
Two-legged stool
Tourism rebounding as fish fade If federal economists are to be believed, a resurgent tourism industry in the state’s national parks might make the tourist hordes more valuable than the state’s […]
(S)he is us
Alaskans crowd popular recreation sites Stealing a page from the playbook of radio-tracking wildlife biologists, the Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation four years ago began tracking people roaming the […]
Swallowed by Alaska
Twenty-five years ago, Sheila Nickerson, a woman who was the Alaska poet laureate when that meant something, wrote a book about those lost in Alaska titled “Disappearance: A Map; A Meditation on […]
Second climbing death
On the day the National Park Service retrieved the body of one dead climber from near the 20,300-foot summit of Mount Denali, another was entombed in the Kahiltna Glacier. The as-yet-unidentified Kahiltna […]
