Goodby Daryl A U.S. Marine who emerged from the jungles of Vietnam to become a legend for saving lives as a National Park Service ranger on Mount McKilney has seen his last […]
A Big, Big Life
A ranger’s death
And a lot of questions A news analysis On a mountain where skis have, over the years, increasingly replaced snowshoes as the tool of choice for glacier travel, a National Park Service […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sister versus brother
One of the saddest family feuds in recent Alaska history came to an end Friday with the state Supreme Court unanimously ruling that Robert Sheldon – the son of legendary Bush pilot […]
Rescued
BIG PORTAGE LAKE, MICH. – The difference between getting in trouble in the civilized world and getting in trouble in the wilds of Alaska could not have been better illustrated than […]
Two-faced Alaska
On the horizon north of Alaska’s largest city, the continent’s tallest peak loomed resplendent Sunday against the evening light in the land of the midnight sun, and if you knew personally the […]
Denali tough times
Alaska’s big mountain has been angry this year. Snow, cold, wind and rain have hammered 20,310-foot Mount Denali, and climbers hoping to stand atop the highest point on the North American […]
All about me
A rash of avoidable accidents on North America’s tallest mountains has national park rangers worrying that a contemporary, urban ethos might be putting people’s lives in danger. Most of the […]
Coming in 2017
Most journalists like to end the year looking back because, well, it’s easy: Cobble together some old stories; throw them online; and go drink. At craigmedred.news, however, we don’t like […]
