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Alaska is the great American wilderness, bigger than any other state and home to Denali, the highest mountain in North America. Climb its glaciers, cross the trackless Brooks Range in Gates of the Arctic, paddle to calving ice in Glacier Bay and watch brown bears fishing for salmon at Katmai.
9 adventures
Mountaineering3 routesUnited States
Three weeks on the glaciers of the highest mountain in North America, 6,190 m above the Alaska Range.
Trekking3 routesUnited States
The least-visited national park in the United States, a trackless Brooks Range wilderness reached only by bush plane.
Kayaking3 routesUnited States
A week of sea kayaking to the calving faces of tidewater glaciers, with humpbacks, seals and bears along the shore.
Wildlife watching3 routesUnited States
Brown bears snatching leaping salmon at Brooks Falls, one of the great wildlife spectacles on earth.
Trekking3 routesUnited States
Glaciers, copper-mine ruins and trackless valleys in the largest national park in the United States.
Skiing3 linesUnited States
The steep, fluted spines above Valdez that made the Chugach the benchmark for big-mountain skiing.
Wildlife watching3 routesUnited States
The Porcupine caribou herd crossing the Arctic coastal plain, one of the last great mammal migrations on earth.
Dog sledding3 routesUnited States
Driving your own dog team on the historic Iditarod Trail, the route of the most famous sled-dog race in the world.
Kayaking3 routesUnited States
Sea kayaking in front of tidewater glaciers in Kenai Fjords National Park, with sea otters, puffins and whales.