June marks the thaw and breakup season for most of Alaska. Though unusual, June snowfall is not unprecedented in the Brooks Range, which features elevations exceeding 4,000 feet. Snowstorms this time ...

Using fodar, he flew over the tall Brooks Range peaks. He found this: Mount Isto is the highest peak in North America's Arctic at 8,975 feet. The USGS 1:250,000 map created from data in the 1950s ...

Standing on top of the mountain, the vast largely unaltered landscape of southeast Alaska features a gorgeous panoramic view ...

Fickel would fly south, G-LiHT’s sensors strafing the landscape, until the slopes of the Alaska Range turned him around, about 240 miles out. Then he’d continue north, low and straight ...

Most glaciers in every mountain range and island group in Alaska are experiencing significant retreat, thinning or stagnation, especially glaciers at lower elevations, according to U.S. Geological ...

Brooks wrote of an 1899 expedition he made with topographer William Peters to map the country from Lynn Canal near Haines west through the mountains of the St. Elias Range and northward through ...

Olympic gold medalist Tommy Moe, Alaska heli-ski pioneer Mike Overcast and fly fishing expert Mike Rheam founded Tordrillo Mountain Lodge almost 12 years ago and have been sharing the location ...

When golden eagles migrate to and from Alaska each year, they have to navigate around the 16,000-foot peaks of the Wrangell Mountains. A new study examines how the weather affects their route.

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska. -- Army Rangers, Navy Seals, and Special Forces are all considered elite troops in the U.S. military. They are all highly trained in their fields and prepared for just ...