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 […]
Beautiful & deadly
McKinley’s first death of the year Brooklyn-born Alex Chiu fell in love with the mountains of the West, found himself lured north to Alaska by the biggest of them all, and tragically […]
Dead bear day
Joyous “Fat Bear Week” turns ugly As was inevitable, Fat Bear Week – the National Park Service’s promotional effort to portray the brown/grizzly bears of Katmai National Park as big, cuddly, lovable […]
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 […]
Journalism 2024
All the news that’s fit to print The big Alaska news lighting up the internet over the Memorial Day holiday came from Denali National Park and Preserve, and it was arguably good […]
Lucky us
Alaskans who believe artificial intelligence is intelligent can now throw away all their smelly, plastic-eating, DEET-filled insect repellent. ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot launched in November of last year, has concluded […]
100 dead bears
How many is too many? Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) have joined the list of environmental groups outraged by the state of Alaska’s execution of just shy of 100 bears and […]
Bad good deeds
And the power of government status On May 20 of this year, Clifford Walters – a well-meaning, 78-year-old Hawaiian tourist visiting Yellowstone National Park – tried to save a bison calf. The […]
