Your Alaska Pictures
Your Alaska Pictures
Your Alaska Pictures
See photos of Alaska submitted to National Geographic by users like you.
Dogsledding in Alaska
Dogsledding in Alaska
Dogsledding in Alaska
You don’t “drive” a dogsled. You simply hold on tight and try to not fall off. My team of Alaskan huskies only have one speed—forward, and as a dabbling amateur musher, I only have one function—to slow us down. I jump on the rubber drag pad whenever we rocket down steep slopes, or those moments…
Anne’s Fairbanks
Anne’s Fairbanks
Anne’s Fairbanks
Photographer, writer, and music industry publicist Anne Kristoff says living in Fairbanks, Alaska has made her stronger (“I can now say: 40 below? No problem.”). Here are a few of her favorite things about the “Golden Heart City.”
Alaska’s Cat Mayor
Alaska’s Cat Mayor
Alaska’s Cat Mayor
When I arrived in Talkeetna, Alaska, Mayor Stubbs was lounging near a pile of Beanie Babies, fighting to keep his eyes open. His office, on the top floor of Nagley’s General Store, was filled with knickknacks and cages full of screeching green birds. A little girl with tumbling blonde pigtails leaned over Stubbs and whispered, “I can’t believe this is the mayor!” Neither could I. A cat – as mayor!
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