Brian Okonek talks about his introduction to outdoor activities and involvement in high school mountaineering club, exploring the Talkeetna area, meeting Dave Johnston, his trip in the Alaska Range, relationship with his dad and hopes for a...
Title taken from caption. View of four members of the National Geographic expedition with full packs climbing through snow. Two of the men are also holding rifles. Caption also says: "Climbing up to the Pass in early spring." Photo taken in what...
Title from accompanying notes. View uphill of a man climbing mountain. The mountain slope is barren and quite steep. The man is tethered with rope, and he carries a pick axe or walking stick.
Title taken from information with photo. View of woman climbing down ladder from window above Denali Restaurant at Fourth Avenue and B Street in Anchorage, Alaska, after March 27, 1964 earthquake damaged building. Sign on building reads: "Denali...
Title from accompanying notes. In the distance are several men who are climbing to the saddle between two mountain peaks. In the foreground are cliffs of snow.
Daryl Miller is interviewed by Dave Krupa on April 27, 2000 in Talkeetna, Alaska. Miller discusses his personal background and how he was introduced to climbing; his first climbing experience on Denali; not summitting on his first attempt and the...
Title from accompanying notes. "Al Randall and Japanese climbers at Camp 1 after Al and I had scouted beyond Camp 1. Bright red colored flags are wands used to mark the route so that it can be followed (even in poor weather)." Six men in...
Title taken from caption. View of three members of the National Geographic expedition with full packs. Two of the men are also holding rifles. Caption also says: "Climbing up the moraine on the way to the Pass." Photo taken in what was later...
This stereograph depicts miners climbing the section of trail over Chilkoot Pass that was known as the "golden staircase," where steps had been carved out of snow and ice to aid the climbers over the top of the pass. Behind the line of climbers in...
This stereograph (or stereoview) depicts miners carrying equipment climbing up the trail over the section of Chilkoot Pass that was known as the "golden staircase," where steps had been carved out of the snow and ice. Behind the climbers is the...
This stereograph depicts three miners and packers climbing the "golden staircase" to the top of Chilkoot Pass during the gold rush, circa 1898. Two men sit on the snow beside the climbers with a dog. One of the climbers gas a sled strapped to his...
This photograph features plants climbing up strings attached to the roof of the porch. They might be climbing beans. Related photographs of the same house are: UAF-1968-21-149, UAF-1968-21-153, UAF-1968-21-156,...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: $2. #30. Galena, AK, 1955." Image shows a lineman, identified on the photo as "Bee," either climbing or descending a power pole. Military vehicles are faintly visible on the ground in the distance.
Title from caption. Photograph of gold rush stampeders climbing the Chilkoot Pass. Caption reads: "Note the long procession of early stampeders climbing the steep mountain with packs on their backs. This old route called Chilcoot Pass was...
Ian McRae talks about getting into climbing at a young age in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, deciding to stop playing soccer and go climbing in the High Sierras, learning to climb in the California mountains, his first trip to Alaska trying to climb...