View west to port Valdez, the glacial fiord that will be the Trans-Alaska pipeline terminus, with Robe lake in the foreground the Lowe river dumps its burden of silty rock flour into port Valdez ...

Last October, they crossed the Juneau Icefield in Alaska, their ninth of the 20 ... to the small community of Grise Fiord. They plan to cover 1,000km over six weeks and use "ski sails," which ...