WHITE RIVER, Yukon Territory, Canada – Water is what kills people in the wilds of the far north, but bears are what people fear. Why this disconnect is hard to say. […]
Greatest danger
Rescue me
In the wake of what is being billed as the largest mountain rescue in Alaska history, it is hard to avoid pondering what the late and legendary Bradford Washburn might think. Washburn […]
Old dangers return
With the pandemic waning and travel resuming, people are back to suffering and dying the old-fashioned way in Alaska. Already it has been a tough year in Denali National Park and […]
Hidden dangers
The 2021 Alaska Range climbing season has begun tragically with an unroped Colorado skier dead in a crevasse fall on the south spur of the Eldridge Glacier. According to officials with Denali […]
(C)old Alaska
Global warming was out as April rolled into the far north. The bad cold days were back. And humankind was struggling to adapt. Along the Bering Sea in Northwest Alaska, the Kobuk […]
Deadly terrain
On Monday, Matt Tunseth, an out-of-work journalist in Anchorage, posted on his Facebook page a photograph of avalanche rubble on the flanks of the city’s most climbed mountain with a warning to […]
Disaster, take two?
UPDATED – Feb. 4, 2021 Canada appears to have now torpedoed a big chunk of the Alaska cruise business. A Canadian federal government order out of Ottawa today prohibits cruise vessels carrying […]
Deadly attraction?
A small, single-engine floatplane delivered 40-year-old Nathan Campbell deep into some of the wildest country in the heart of Alaska in May. He confessed to the pilot on the way that he […]
No sacrifices
If you visit a national park in the U.S., do not abandon your hiking companion or companions to a bear to save yourself. That is the rather odd advice now being offered […]
Economic doomsday?
A newly released report on the “Blue Economy” from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development contains nary a mention of Alaska, but it is stuffed full of bad news […]
