When golden eagles migrate to and from Alaska each year, they have to fly around a huge obstacle: the 16,000-foot peaks of the Wrangell Mountains. Some of the eagles choose a route that skirts the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – A century after the first climber reached the summit of North America’s tallest peak, a growing movement of Alaskans is seeking to have it renamed Denali, a moniker ...

Conquering forbidding Alaska summits helped Fred Beckey establish his reputation, and the name still reverberates powerfully among climbers here today. Some of Beckey's first ascents -- such peaks as ...

While Wisconsin is still waiting on our first snow of fall there's plenty of it heading towards Alaska. Not a huge shocker that they're ahead of us in the snow department, but it's a sign of the ...

Alaska looms large in skiing’s collective imagination. From Sammy Carlson’s seasonal excursions to Teton Gravity Research’s slate of films, flick after flick has featured the towering peaks of the ...

A remote stretch of Alaska mountains across Cook Inlet from Anchorage has become the center of a court fight between a heli-skiing company and the Trump administration. The company, Tordrillo Mountain ...

This story originally appeared in the print magazine POWDER 2026 Photo Annual. Copies are still available while supplies last ...

The largest inland earthquake to strike North America in more than a century shook south central Alaska on Nov. 3, 2002 (SN: 11/16/02, p. 307: Available to subscribers at Shaked Alaska: A sleepy fault ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Our quest was emblazoned on the T-shirts we were given before we left for Alaska: “8 men, 4 highways, 5 days, 865 miles.” On motorcycles. We were a mixed group of Sunday motorcycle ...