On December 6, 2025, the St. Elias mountain range was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Canadian Yukon/ Alaska border.

Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak’s ice-covered caldera has spewed ash that ...

The battle over the name of North America’s tallest mountain has returned to Washington, reviving a dispute that spans more ...

This article appears in the 2025 Photo Annual print issue of POWDER Magazine. The magazine is still available on newsstands near you, and can be shipped directly to your front door. Out of our group ...

Palmer, Alaska, is one of those small mountain towns that seem to have been plucked straight out of the Swiss Alps. Surrounded by towering peaks of the Talkeetna and Chugach Mountains, this is where ...

The federal government this week may name an Alaska Range mountain after a longtime Talkeetna miner and pioneer woman. On Thursday, the domestic names committee of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names ...

Alaska looms large in skiing’s collective imagination. From Sammy Carlson’s seasonal excursions to Teton Gravity Research’s slate of films, flick after flick has featured the towering peaks of the ...

People stand at the Eielson Visitor Center with a view of North America's tallest peak, Denali (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, file) Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" ...

Photos and words from an “intense” trip to an Alaskan gem. Out of our group of five skiers, Dave and I were the ones on the first flight in Drake’s small, modified Cessna. That meant we had the ...

Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" for the tallest mountain in North America. Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it after ...