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 […]
Old dangers return
Mean mother
With more dog mushers needing rescue on Friday and some competitors in the muscle-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) pulled off the route, 2020 will go down as the year Mother Nature bit […]
Bearanoia victim
Since 26-year-old Angel Heaton shot herself in the hip with the .40-caliber handgun intended to save her from bears, she’s pretty much become the poster child for the worst that can go […]
Long night
Twenty-two-year-old Anchorage hiker Ben Seaman can be thankful it is summer and the weather is friendly because in the mountains of Alaska help is often far away even if it appears close. […]
What happened to Nephi?
The search for Nephi Soper is over, but as with Chris McCandless before him the mystery of what happened to the 26-year-old might linger forever. Soper’s body was found Sunday morning floating […]
The search for Nephi ends
Hiker Nephi Soper joined the many gone missing in the Alaska wild on Wednesday. Hopes of finding the 26-year-old specialist in the Alaska National Guard had been dimming with the passing of […]
No sign of Nephi yet
A third-day of searching for a hiker gone missing in the Front Range of the Chugach Mountains within sight of Alaska’s largest city appears to have ended with no sign of Nephi […]
Gone missing in Alaska
Dangerous gale-force winds drove rain and snow across the wilderness of the Chugach Mountains at Anchorage’s back door on Sunday as authorities tried their best to press a search for a member […]
