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Article: Summer trekking in Alaska's Arctic. (Arctic National Wildlife Range, Alaska)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- June 1, 1989
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The picture at right was taken in one of the wildest and most remote places left in North America: the treeless north slope of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), in Alaska's northeast corner.
It was snapped on a June evening when hikers (lower left) took an after-dinner stroll above camp on the Kongakut River. Here, the lowangle light ftom the midnight sun turns rounded hummocks of tundra almost gold. Rays glint off the steel blue braids of the river where it spreads out onto the refuge's coastal plain, and patches of snow linger along the banks. The dark ridge on the distant horizon is the rugged spine of the Brooks Range.
Spectacular Arctic ...