Young Austrian Aidan Don was never supposed to die in a cold river in Alaska. The 49th state was supposed to be but another stop along the way in […]
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Water kills again
The growing Alaska sport of packrafting has tragically added to the number of drowning victims in America’s largest national park this year. Officials in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve along […]
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 […]
Alaska kills
Wildlife professionals Michael Huffman and Rochelle Renken loved the outdoors. They came to Alaska looking for adventure in the wild, and it killed them. Officials at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park on […]
Deadly rivers
Once more high, fast water appears to have killed in Alaska. Searchers looking for a pair of missing backpackers in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park on Saturday reported they found gear scattered along […]
Trekkers lost
Three National Park Service search teams were on the ground in the remote and rugged heart of the Wrangell St. Elias National Park today hoping to find some sign of an unidentified […]
Tourists, no tourists
Almost three decades on from passage of the Alaska National Interests Lands Act (ANILCA), the bonanza and the bust of 49th-state national parks is clearly outlined in a lengthy analysis of the […]
Hiker found dead
The body of a hiker missing in Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve has been found along the banks of the Nizina River about a mile downstream from a long-abandoned […]
Another one gone
Lost in Alaska
Once more a visitor to the north has gone missing in the Alaska wilds. This time, according to rangers at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, it is 34-year-old Nick Larsen from […]
