Standing on top of the mountain, the vast largely unaltered landscape of southeast Alaska features a gorgeous panoramic view of rugged mountain peaks, thick pine forests, and pristine lakes. This ...

When the races are over, Mount Marathon stands watch over Seward, holding centuries of history and untold stories.

A MICA Guides tour shows the unique icy landscape of the 27-mile-long Matanuska Glacier in Alaska on July 20. Deep holes, flowing glacial streams, ice canyons and blue pools of water define this ...

Anchorage is home to one of Alaska’s most popular peaks—Flattop Mountain. But all those hikers have done a lot of damage to the landscape. So this summer and fall, volunteers have been working ...

GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK, Alaska – A giant, hollow breath, deep as a crevasse, breaks the predawn quiet. Just off the lip of the shallow, rocky beach where my tent is pitched, a 40-ton behemoth ...

Keith Echelmeyer has died at age 56. The glaciologist, pilot, mountaineer and fighter for life passed away earlier this month, with his incomparable wife Susan Campbell by his side and chickadees ...

It estimates that 67,000 square miles of land—13 percent of the state of Alaska—has experienced “directional ... glaciers retreat, treelines move north, and wildfires ravage landscapes. ...

National Park Service plant ecologist Carl Roland lives in Alaska, where climate change is palpably present. Ecologists have predicted major landscape-scale changes in the future of the Alaskan ...

Hiking on Spencer Glacier in Alaska feels otherworldly, but it actually isn't that far away. Even though it takes a train ride, a van ride, a short hike and paddling in a kayak to get to there ...

Klein says the transformation of Alaska's landscape corresponds with an increase in temperatures during the past 100 years. He compared aerial photos of the Kenai Peninsula taken in 1950 and 1996.