Braving Alaska

All rights belong to National Geographic. “Imagine living hundreds of miles from your nearest neighbor or grocery store and having mail delivered by airplane a few times each year, and battling the long, harsh winters with temperatures that plummet to -51 degrees Celsius. Such are the living conditions chosen by the hearty few who inhabit America’s last frontier: the Alaskan bush—a spectacular land of rivers and mountains so remote that you’ll enter the lives of four families who have turned their backs on