This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The sun is still high in the Alaskan summer sky when the call comes in at 9:47 p.m. Sirens wail, and eight smokejumpers ...

Five minutes after squeezing into the Cessna 206 with three other giddy passengers, the blue-and-white six-seater zipped across the gravel runway and rose into an overcast sky, veering west for the ...

A photographer captured the beautiful aurora borealis streaking through the night sky over a snowy forest in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Wednesday, March 12. This footage captured by Vincent Ledvina shows ...

Themes: The summer ... when the sky is normally in complete darkness, the sun can clearly still be seen and the evenings remain bright, like here in Alaska! “What’s fun about Alaskan summers ...

Three-part series examining the harsh elements and rich rewards of the Alaskan wilderness. Summer is a narrow window of plenty, when the land is bathed in 24-hour sunlight. Show more Alaska is one ...

“Black Woods, Blue Sky” tells the story of Birdie, a young, single mom living and working at the Wolverine Lodge in a remote Alaskan town along the Wolverine River. Nightlife at the lodge tends to get ...