Into Thin Air: Heli-Skiing in Alaska

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Into Thin Air: Heli-Skiing in Alaska
14 March 2025

Experience Alaska through the eyes of a traveler with CMG leading the way to untouched powder and pure adventure.
Staring down at a tiny dark speck in the white valley below, I was terrified. The helicopter, which moments ago perched on the ridge of this ragged mountaintop, had noisily and dramatically whirred up into the air and disappeared into the endless fields of snow of the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. I was up in the Chugach Mountains, the northernmost of the Pacific Coast Ranges of Alaska, teetering on the western edge of North America and seemingly life itself. How did I get here?