Alaska
Alaska, USA · Denali · Talkeetna · Anchorage
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The place
Alaska is America on a scale hard to take in — a fifth the size of the Lower 48, with the continent's highest mountains and biggest glaciers, and fewer people than a mid-sized city. We've been back several times, up into the Interior to Denali, the highest peak in North America, through tundra full of grizzlies, caribou, and moose in the endless summer daylight.
Places I visited
History & facts for each spot — with a “then & now” archival photo where one exists. Every one has its own page; open it for the full write-up and all the photos.
The highest peak in North America at 20,310 feet, and one of the coldest mountains on Earth — it makes its own weather, and only a third of the people who fly in ever see the summit out of the cloud.
Full history & photos →Read more on Wikipedia →Archival photo: Mount McKinley, Alaska, 1908 (AL+CA 4868) — Wikimedia Commons
Alaska's only real city, wedged between the Chugach Mountains and Cook Inlet — largely rebuilt after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, the second-strongest ever recorded.
Full history & photos →Read more on Wikipedia →Archival photo: Anchorage Alaska 1 July 1915 — Wikimedia Commons