To Anchorage, Alaska resident Helander, heading underground is the only way to survive punishing winds during exploratory climbing trips. While trudging back after a climb, with 70-mph winds lashing ...

Steve Lewis examines a formation in a cave on Chichagof Island. Looking out from El Capitan Cave, where Steve Lewis helped map two miles of passage — and where he got hooked on caving. This was not ...

One of the great things about drones is they can explore remote, inaccessible locations, like the gorgeous ice caves in Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier. This video, “Bigger Than Life,” bills itself as the ...

The ice caves of Alaska are virtually impenetrable for most explorers - but for a drone, they are easy to get in (and out) of. A team of filmmakers took their quadcopter to a remote series of caves to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — By their third day in a tiny snow cave under 4 feet of snow, Chris Hanna and Jenny Neyman thought the shelter in an Alaska ice field might turn into a tomb. The 7-by-5 space ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - By their third day in a tiny snow cave under 4 feet of snow, Chris Hanna and Jenny Neyman thought the shelter in an Alaska ice field might turn into a tomb. The 7-by-5 space ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - By their third day in a tiny snow cave under 4 feet of snow, Chris Hanna and Jenny Neyman thought the shelter in an Alaska ice field might turn into a tomb. The 7-by-5 space ...

Steve Lewis, one of Alaska's foremost cavers, will speak at Oregon State University at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, about his experiences measuring and mapping caves in southeast Alaska. The free talk is ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — By their third day in a tiny snow cave under 4 feet of snow, Chris Hanna and Jenny Neyman thought the shelter in an Alaska ice field might turn into a tomb. The 7-by-5 space ...

DOUGLAS ISLAND — Down the street from our home here is a popular spot for runners and after-work strollers. The forested Treadwell Historic Trail runs along Gastineau Channel across from downtown ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Cave-in lakes resulting from ground caving following the thawing of permafrost have developed in areas underlain by fine-grained sediments in ...