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Alaska holidays

May 2024

  • black and white overhead panorama of river, road and peaks

    I became a man in the Alaskan wilderness – just not in the way you might think

    Benjamin Alva Polley had a healthy respect for the whims of the wilderness. But when he and his wife headed to the most remote frontier, fear crept in

December 2020

  • Michelle Paver by the moulin, on the glacier - Mendenhall Glaciar

    Michelle Paver: Alaska's ice cave left me fizzing with ideas

    The children’s author remembers an exhilarating hike to a glacier north of Juneau as research for one of her Wolf Brother books

April 2020

  • Don Sheldon’s mountain cabin in Alaska

    Lockdown culture
    ‘I cultivated a joy in little things ’ - coping with isolation in the wild

    From living on an island with a population of two in the Falklands to a cabin in Alaska 300 miles from the nearest road, five writers tell us about the routines and strategies they developed to deal with loneliness

February 2020

  • Young brown bear (Ursus Arctos) fishing for spawning salmon at Freshwater Bay creek in Tongass National Forest.

    The bear necessities in Alaska

    Tongass National Park is one of the world’s great, unspoiled forests – and it’s home to more brown bears than anywhere else on earth

September 2018

  • Tracy K Smith

    On my radar
    On my radar: Tracy K Smith’s cultural highlights

    The Pulitzer-winning poet on a captivating animation, a powerful opera and a hideaway in Alaska

June 2018

  • Midsummer sunset from Birsay, Orkney.

    Readers' travel tips
    10 great white night experiences: readers’ travel tips

    The party never stops on these midnight sun and twilight jaunts from Russia to Alaska. And neither do the hikes, wildlife encounters and saunas in the gloaming

November 2017

  • The Dalton Highway; America's Loneliest Road<br>epa06262765 YEARENDER 2017 PHOTO ESSAYS (07/33) A car rolls south along the Dalton Highway near Coldfoot, Alaska, USA, 03 September 2017. Stretching 414 miles (666 kilometers) north from central Alaska to Prudhoe Bay, the Dalton Highway is one of America's northernmost roads and arguably its most remote. Built as a supply road for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Dalton was opened to public use in 1981. Largely gravel and littered with potholes, a round-trip drive takes four days. Though it still offers few facilities and no radio, cell service, or internet the Haul Road, as it is often called, rewards its rare visitors with spectacular Arctic scenery. EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZO ATTENTION: For the full PHOTO ESSAY text please see Advisory Notice epa06239568

    From the agencies
    The Dalton Highway: America's loneliest road – in pictures

    Built as a supply route for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Dalton Highway is one of America’s northernmost roads, and only opened for public use in 1981

October 2016

  • Grizzly bear on the lake shore of Crescent Lake in Lake Clark National Park with the Chigmit mountains of the Alaska Range in the background, Southcentral Alaska, summer

    Why I love …
    Eowyn Ivey on Alaska: ‘I was told never to run from a charging bear. Yet I did just that’

    The sparsely populated US state’s austere beauty is a magnet for creative people, says the Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer of The Snow Child

March 2016

  • A musher crosses a lake near the Cripple checkpoint of Iditarod 2016, Alaska, on 10 March.

    Instagram snapshots
    Instagram snapshots: dog gone – the Iditarod sled race, Alaska

    From mountain ranges and frozen rivers to forest and windswept coast, this 1,000-mile race is a battle with nature. Photographer Marc Lester captures the action

October 2015

  • Northern lights at Lake Torassieppi, Finland

    Holiday guides
    Northern lights holiday guide

  • The Pilgrim Springs of Nome, Alaska.

    Nome, Alaska: ‘The spring water is as hot as I can bear. The effect is miraculous’

August 2015

  • Welcome sign, Talkeetna Alaska

    A great little place I know
    Put the flags out for Talkeetna, Alaska, says writer and comedian Jon Holmes

    This tiny Alaskan town has one of America’s last flagstop trains, holds an annual moose dropping festival and is surrounded by spectacular wilderness
  • Alaska Dispatch News<br>An Iditarod musher makes their way from Galena, Alaska to the new checkpoint of Huslia during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Thursday, March 12, 2015. A lack of snow in southcentral Alaska forced race organizers to move the race north. (AP Photo/Alaska Dispatch News, Loren Holmes) iditarod12th 2015 Iditarod;Iditarod;Iditarod 2015;huslia

    Can you still call yourself an adventurer if you use a GPS safety beacon?

    Technology that pinpoints exact locations saves money and lives but critics say devices garner inflated sense of security, and prompt people to take more risks
  • Hiking tour

    Conquering your fears in Alaska: go big, or go home

    What do you do when you fail at a solo adventure, and start fearing wilderness? Head towards The Last Frontier

July 2015

  • Point Hope, Alaska

    Whale hunting in Alaska: Point Hope, the village caught between tradition and climate change

    Alaska had its hottest year on record in 2014, and for villagers in Point Hope who have hunted and foraged their meals for generations, climate change threatens their way of life: ‘It’s about more than just meat’

April 2015

  • Ryan Kingsbery

    We come from the land of ice and snow: what real Alaskans look like – in pictures

    For the past few years, photographer Nathaniel Wilder has travelled the northernmost state to document the lives of Alaskans – from Anchorage to tiny communities way up north past the last frontier

September 2014

  • Gretchen Loves Anchorage

    Blogger of the week
    An urbanist's guide to Anchorage: 'Moose often stroll the streets'

    Gretchen Fauske of GretchenLovesAnchorage takes us on a tour of the former tent city where sea-planes buzz and coffee and campfires are essential

March 2014

  • Into the Wild subject Chris McCandless's log entry

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about Alaska

    From Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild to Jack London's White Fang, discover Brian Payton's favourite books about the land of big dreams and harsh realities

May 2013

  • Alaska Highway

    The Alaska Highway: road trip through the wilds

    The Alaska Highway across Canada's British Columbia and Yukon is stunning, but even more memorable than the road trip itself are the people Anne Kostalas meets along the way

February 2012

  • What do you reckon the bear might be thinking?

    Shortcuts
    What would you do if a bear charged you?

    A group of tourists in Alaska had to find an answer to that question rather urgently when a hungry grizzly ran at their camp

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