A group of about 40 skiers are somewhere in the Brooks Range right now, competing in an event that's grueling, even by Alaska standards. The annual Alaska Mountain Wilderness Ski Classic kicked off on ...

Mining Road Through Alaska’s Brooks Range Denied Again Thanks to Outcry from Hunters and Anglers Late last week, lawmakers in Washington D.C. hashed out an annual spending bill called the National ...

Washington, D.C. — The Brooks Range in northwest Alaska is one of the most remote and pristine mountain regions in the country, but it’s at risk of becoming an industrial mining hub that would destroy ...

As the climate changes so does the Alaskan landscape. During this summer of record heat Dr. Roman Dial hiked and packrafted from the Dalton Highway, aka “The Haul Road,” to Canada studying vegetative ...

Alfred Brooks was a geologist who traveled thousands of miles in Alaska and left his name on the state's northernmost mountain range. Some two decades before his 1924 death, he left behind a summary ...

U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps give you a choice on the height of Mount Isto. Depending on what map scale you choose, the mountain in the Brooks Range is either higher or lower than 9,000 ...

The Federal Aviation Administration, responding to aviators in Alaska, has added two new passes to its charts in the Brooks Range. The Naqsralugiaq and Carter passes were added for fliers, improving ...

In March of 2012, I stepped off a small plane in Bettles as the wind piled snowdrifts against a wall of spindly black spruce. At the Aurora Lodge, a wiener dog wearing a Christmas sweater greeted me ...