Alaska Mountains Links

Road trip: Alaska Highway picturesque beyond words (Inside Bay Area)

The 1,422 mile stretch from Canada through Alaska is filled with mountains, forests, wild animals and more side trips than you realistically can take in a three-week trip.

Much of his prodigious reputation was carved in Alaska mountains (Anchorage Daily News)

Conquering forbidding Alaska summits helped Fred Beckey establish his reputation, and the name still reverberates powerfully among climbers here today.

Alaska in three weeks (San Jose Mercury News)

After driving the Alaska Highway last summer, I have advice for anyone wishing to follow my tread marks on the last, great road trip left in North America: Leave the camera at home.    Alaska in three days    Alaska, 50 years young

Mostly moist in the South; Alaska in deep freeze (USA Today)

Mostly moist in the South -- A storm system developing in the northern Gulf will stream moisture into the southern Plains, lower Mississippi Valley and Southeast today. The heaviest rainfall (around 2.00 inches, with locally heavier amounts possible) is expected to stretch from northeastern Texas through northern Louisiana, northern Mississippi into northwestern Alabama. Flash flood watches are ...

Everest 2009: American Nancy Norris seeks to become the oldest American woman to summit Mt Everest in Spring 2009 (Everest News)

Have you ever had a dream only to wait around and feel like you are too old or too out of shape to accomplish it? Norris, who at age 59, attempted the world's 6th highest mountain, Cho Oyu, as a prelude to her climb on Mt. Everest.