Tag: Mountaineer
Journey through the Arctic Refuge, Northeast Alaska
After becoming the first person to summit and ski down all Seven Summits, Kit DesLauriers headed to Alaska's Arctic Refuge to hike and ski the highest peaks of the Brooks Range. If she could repeat any of her most noteworthy adventures, which one would it be? Alaska's Arctic Refuge. "It was the wildest deepest most complete silence I have ever felt" she told people at the Anchorage Museum.
KSKA: Thursday 6/21 at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Climber Dies After Fall on Mount McKinley
National Park officials say a climber has died of injuries after falling during a climb of Alaska's Mount McKinley.
Denali Climbing Season Wrapping Up
There are only a couple hundred people left on the mountain and only a few left to check in at the Talkeetna Ranger station to start their climbs.