The subtle but dangerous difference between wild and urban Alaska was underlined this week by the tragic death of a mother and son on the Kobuk River and the combat-fishing rescue of […]
Dangerous waters
Deceptively dangerous
A July Fourth hike to the top of Flattop Mountain to watch Anchorage fireworks ended with a young man from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in a helicopter on his way to a local […]
Now we go Into Reality
That there was some great meaning to the sad, 1992 death of a young man in an abandoned bus near the northern edge of Denali National Park and Preserve became a modern-day […]
Successful Denali rescue
O Only three days after failure in a heroic effort to save the life of Denali climber Masayuki Ikeda at 18,400 feet on Denali, National Park Service helicopter pilot Andy Hermansky is […]
Life and death’s thin line
UPDATED with climber’s identity. High on Alaska’s Mount Denali, people are so close to human limits that sometimes not even fast and heroic rescue efforts can save them. Denali National Park and […]
When journalists make nice, lessons get lost
For want of a shovel, Alaskan Jenny Neyman — writer, editor and enterprising publisher behind the now sorely missed Redoubt Reporter newspaper — and friend Chris Hanna almost died entombed in snow […]
Alaska Range climber rescued
The annual climbing season in the Alaska Range is still about a month away, but Denali National Park and Preserve is reporting the first, high-altitude rescue of the year. The Park’s Talkeetna-based, […]
Facebook reports AK rescue
NOTE: This a corrected version of the original story. What if a well-known Nordic skier who once raced for Alaska Pacific University took a serious, bone-breaking fall while skiing a deadly peak […]
The tough guy
After the beat down the frozen Iditarod Trail put on Pennsylvanian Tim Hewitt last year, a lesser man would have taken his swollen, frostbit fingers and his red, puffed-up-like-potato feet home, plopped […]
