Northern Lights Destinations: Places, Conditions and Different Ways to Experience the Sky
There is a lovely moment on an aurora night when everyone stops checking their phone and simply looks up. Choosing where to travel can help...
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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 Alaska Fall During Paradise Waits
A steep white face can look deceptively simple from a distance. In the footage of Ian McIntosh’s Alaska fall, that clean-looking surface is...
10 Alaska Facts: Scale, Landscapes and Life Beyond the Stereotypes
Alaska can make distances on a map feel surprisingly abstract. Mountains, glacier-shaped valleys and communities spread across very differe...
Humpback Whales from Above: AkXpro’s Alaska Film
White water spreads across a dark sea, and several enormous bodies appear together at the surface. AkXpro’s short film of humpback whales i...
An Alaska Seal Encounter from the Kamana Sailing Expedition
A seal rests on a piece of ice, then reacts to the people passing nearby. It is the sort of brief, unexpected encounter that can become the...
Midnight Sun and Bright Northern Nights: What the Photos Show
The clock says night, but the houses are still bright, the mountains remain visible and a tent hardly seems to need a lamp. Northern summer...
The Aleutian Islands: Volcanoes, Communities and Pacific History
A surf break beneath a snowy volcano is an arresting introduction to the Aleutian Islands. Look beyond that first image, though, and there ...
Ruth Glacier and the Great Gorge: Ice in the Alaska Range
From a distance, the Ruth Glacier looks almost like a pale road through the Alaska Range. Closer views undo that impression: its surface is...