My daughter has been a guide these past eight summers in Alaska, and for her to be this excited convinced me: Tracy Arm must be very special indeed. A quick phone call from my wilderness guide ...

Did you hear the story of a fungus meeting algae, and they took a lichen to each other? Well, apparently it’s a pretty common story up in the fjords of Southeastern Alaska, where scientists from the ...

Oct. 17, 2015, Taan Fjord, Icy Bay, Alaska. The friction that held silt to silt and rock to rock began giving way. Those first rocks shoved more rocks, and then more still. Some 200 million metric ...

Mist, rain, glacial valleys, precipitous cliffs and big bears are what immediately came to mind each time I thought about Misty Fjords, Alaska. In June 2013, along with two friends, we experienced ...

5,710. ... That was my goal for the day. Five thousand, seven hundred and ten feet of snow and tundra, ice and jaw-dropping views. Above all else, 5,710 was the ...

The Carnival cruise ship, the Carnival Spirit, was undamaged after grazing a piece of ice in Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord last week. “Carnival Spirit made contact with an errant piece of drifting ice last ...