Wrangell St-Elias is a big deal, literally. It’s America’s largest national park. “Wrangell-St. Elias encompasses one of the largest concentrations of mountains, glaciers, rivers, and wildlife in the ...
In this entry in our series on the climbing history of North American peaks, we examine Alaska's 4,996m Mount Blackburn and Dora Keen’s pioneering 1912 ascent. Mount Blackburn is the highest peak in ...
At 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias is the largest national park in the United States and covers roughly the same area as the next two biggest national parks combined (Denali and Gates of the ...
View of Mount Sanford in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Overnighting on a glacier is not your average camping trip—then again, Wrangell-St. Elias is not your average national park. That’s a fact I ...
The deadly landslide that struck Wrangell on the night of Nov. 20 is seen the next day. (Photo provided by Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities) As the Southeast Alaska community ...
The Wrangell landslide happened in an instant. Somewhere high on a hillside above Zimovia Highway, the slope started moving. In a matter of seconds, a river of mud fanned out and ran for nearly 4,000 ...
Soils saturated by heavy rains unleashed the massive landslide that killed six people in the Southeast Alaska community of Wrangell in November, along with a second huge landslide that rumbled down a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wrangell St-Elias is a big deal, literally. It’s America’s largest national park. “Wrangell-St. Elias encompasses one of the ...
As the Southeast Alaska community of Wrangell mourns and continues to respond to a landslide disaster that killed at least four people, Alaskans face a longer-term challenge: how to prevent similar ...