For more than 40 years, Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Alaska’s hardiest residents have gathered around the frozen ...

Travelling in Alaska — the US’s final frontier — can feel like jumping through a wormhole. Time here is marked not by the ...

Green has broken 26 bones in his body, most of them from ice climbing. He picked up the sport when he was 16 years old, and ...

above sea level, the mountain sweeps to 20,320 ft. above central Alaska in a single cascade of rock and ice. In summer, McKinley is merely inhospitable; in winter, it is deadly. For one thing ...

With 25 glaciers comprising the rugged mountain, climbers face the most glaciated peak in the lower-48 states, second only to Denali and other mountains in Alaska. The mountain's volcanic nature ...

America's ice-climbing epicenter was facing a bleak future, with climate change endangering its water supply, until an ...

ice climbing, ice skating, snowmobile and helicopter trips and excursions to glaciers. Bohrer contributed from Juneau, Alaska. Associated Press journalist Jennifer Kelleher contributed from Honolulu.