Well-known mountaineer Gerald McDonnell will be posthumously honored in September with the gold medal International Alpine Solidarity Award. The recognition will be awarded to the family of McDonnell in Pinzolo, Italy. (more…)
KTNA’s morning news, weather, echos, announcements for August 26th. Host is Sue Deyoe. Headlines – Plane crashes on Parks Highway; Missing hiker in Denali walks into road camp. Voters approve measure 2; Primary election results in the Upper Valley. 16 min.
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DENALI PARK – John MacGregor, 54, from Jasper, Ga walked into Toklat Road Camp today after crews had been searching for over 2 days. He is uninjured but cold, according to the National Park Service. (more…)
The ground search for missing hiker, 54-year-old John MacGregor, of Jasper, Georgia is continuing today inside Denali National Park. There are now 70 people involved in the search as well as a dog team from Alaska Search and Rescue Dogs. (photo courtesy of NPS) (more…)
photo by Robin Song
Roger Robinson, the mountain ranger with experience in the Alaska Range since the seventies, talks to host Maureen McLaughlin about his early years in climbing, his first climbs in Alaska, and settling in to the area as he made mountaineering his profession as well as his passion. This is an archived program, originally aired in the fall of 2009. Audio runs about a half hour.
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Hot, dry weather on the north side of the Alaska Range provided for Red-Flag-Warning conditions over the weekend. A wildland fire was reported in Healy on Sunday. (more…)
A woman drowned in the Teklanika River off of Stampede Road north of Healy on Saturday.
Alaska State Troopers received a call that a woman had been swept downriver while trying to cross the Teklanika River at the Stampede Road. (more…)
The three individuals that died in the Fairchild C-123 plane crash in Denali Park on Sunday have been identified.
Bill Michel, age 61, of Delta Junction was the owner of the company plane and was the pilot. John Eschelman, age 52, of Wasilla and Paul Quartly, age 66, also of Wasilla, were on board. (more…)
Three presumed dead in Denali Park aircraft crash; photo by NPS
At 3 pm Sunday afternoon, a cargo aircraft crashed into the south-facing slope of Mount Healy inside Denali National Park. The crash occurred within a mile of Park headquarters and just 200 yards north of the Denali Park Road. (more…)
