Caroline Van Hemert is a wildlife biologist and adventurer, and the author of The Sun is a Compass, see what gear she carries.
Cold Mountain Path, a new book from Tom Kizzia, tells a decades-long story about happenings in the abandoned mining town of McCarthy.
A daughter travels to Alaska and feels the same magnetic pull her dad felt when he traveled north 30 years before.
Haines may be remote, but it’s an eclectic and welcoming community, and Michelle Theall feels at home there.
Not everyone likes eulachon, so loaded with oils they are nicknamed candlefish, but this Alaskan family does, and they load up every spring.
Friends of Nike Site Summit maintain and provide tours of a Cold War era missile defense site on top of Mount Gordon Lyons near Anchorage.
Bambino’s Baby Food is an Alaskan-owned business that manufactures baby food using local ingredients, including sockeye salmon.
Surfers explore the waves of Umnak Island in the Aleutian Chain.
The author bears witness to the decline and shuttering of Port Bailey Cannery, an operation on the north end of Kodiak Island.
Sledge Island, a rocky outcrop in the Bering Strait 24 miles from Nome, is host to artifacts, wildlife, and survival stories.