Northern Lights Destinations: 10 Places to See the Aurora Borealis
The northern lights shine brightest in a ring around the Arctic, the auroral zone centred near 67° north. Put yourself under that ring betwe...
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Alaska: Mountain Landscapes & Winter Stories
Alaska appears in this archive through mountain films, snow-covered landscapes and encounters with the natural world. Browse the stories for the viewpoint behind each photograph or sequence, then continue into the glacier and outdoor-film collections. Older recordings offer a view of their moment in time rather than a current report on access or conditions.
Ian McIntosh's 1,600-Foot Fall in Alaska's Neacola Mountains
On one of his first turns down a steep face in Alaska's Neacola Mountains, professional skier Ian McIntosh dropped into a trench he coul...
10 Alaska Facts: Size, Mountains, Glaciers, Coastline and Wild Plants
Alaska is America's great northern frontier: a state so big that its east–west span reaches 2,400 miles, with more than three million la...
Humpback Whales Bubble-Net Feeding in Alaska: AkXpro’s Drone Video
From high above the dark water of an Alaskan bay, a ring of white foam appears, and a moment later a crowd of humpback whales bursts up thr...
Alaska Seal on Ice Surprises a Boat: The Kamana Expedition Clip
A seal dozing on a slab of floating ice lifts its head as a sailing boat glides past, and its sudden lunge makes everyone on deck jump. Enr...
Midnight Sun in the Arctic: Where and When the Sun Never Sets
It is a minute past midnight in Longyearbyen, and the painted wooden houses of Svalbard glow in full sunshine. North of the Arctic Circle, ...
Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Volcanoes, Climate, Unangan People and WWII
The Aleutian Islands sweep about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) west from the Alaska Peninsula towards Kamchatka, separating the North Pacific from ...
Ruth Glacier and the Great Gorge: Denali’s Deepest Canyon of Ice
The Ruth Glacier flows about 40 miles out of the Alaska Range on the south side of Denali, North America’s highest mountain. Halfway down, ...
Real-Time Northern Lights in 4K: Ronn Murray’s Fairbanks Aurora Film
Most northern-lights videos are time-lapses that speed the sky up many times. Ronn Murray of The Aurora Chasers went the other way: on the ...
Cody Townsend’s Tordrillo Chute: The ‘Most Insane Ski Line Ever’
A super-narrow slot of snow, cliffs on both sides and more than 2,000 vertical feet below: in December 2014 Matchstick Productions released...
Alaska in Five Photos: Aurora, Mountains, Brown Bears and Wild Roads
Alaska is the largest state in the United States, a land of glaciers, towering peaks, salmon rivers and winter skies lit by the aurora. The...
Frozen Lake Sound: Why Rocks Skipped on Ice Sound Like a Star Wars Blaster
Cory Williams picked up a rock, threw it across a frozen lake in Alaska and stopped dead. Instead of a dull clatter, the ice fired back a s...
Ben Pierce Sees the Northern Lights in Fairbanks, Alaska: A Boy's Wish
A small figure raises his arms under a sky lit green by the aurora borealis. In autumn 2014 nine-year-old Ben Pierce from Texas, who was sl...
Mendenhall Ice Caves, Alaska: Photos, Formation and How to Visit
Under the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, Alaska, meltwater carved caves with ceilings of glowing blue ice and floors of wet rock. Around 2...
Buddy the German Shepherd Who Led an Alaska Trooper to a Fire
On the night of 4 April 2010, a five-year-old German shepherd named Buddy ran out onto a snowy road in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valle...
McNeil River Brown Bear Sits Beside Photographer Drew Hamilton
Drew Hamilton was photographing brown bears fishing below him at Alaska’s McNeil River State Game Sanctuary when a large bear walked up thr...
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Alaska Glaciers Then and Now: 23 Historic Photo Pairs, Glacier Bay to Kenai
In 1895 a photographer on the shore of Muir Inlet looked out at a wall of ice rising from the sea. When USGS geologist Bruce Molnia returne...