Many thanks to Bill, Angie and Sandra of Talkeetna Air Taxis for making this possible. You guys have the greatest job in the world.
Thanks for an awesome time.
Peter & Damian
On The Mountain
Take off.
Leaving earth.
High glacier mark. That ridge is 500ft tall.
The Ruth Glacier. It’s 1.5 miles across.
A smaller (sure!) glacier feeds the main flow.
Denali. The Great One.
Glaciers turning.
This wall is 5000ft tall. That’s a mile!
And so is this one!
Landing approach. How high are we? 50ft? 200ft?
“I’m just gonna walk into the sunlight.”
“Oh, it’s like a mile and a half.”
Our intrepid pilot Bill
Denali, a mere 20 miles away.
Each crevice is deep enough to get lost in.
Face of the glacier.
The basin. 100ft walls of ice.
Bill takes us home.
Peter and Damian with a new respect for life.
Angie, Peter, Sandra and Bill.
A final farewell to The Great One.
