Adventures in Travel Photography in the Digital Age

When I snagged my first big photo assignment with a major magazine, National Geographic Adventure, I traveled to a remote mountain range called the Arrigetch Peaks north of the Arctic circle in Alaska.

It was the most remote I had ever been. Just getting there required a flight to Fairbanks, 250 miles of dirt road, a rattling bush flight in an overloaded prop plane for another couple of hundred miles, and then two long days of trail-less hiking. If anyone on our team got seriously hurt or sick, our best hope was to radio a passing plane with the VHF. A plane happened to fly overhead once every few days.

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