Complex sentence: During his journey to Alaska to climb Mount McKinley, Eruç, who is Muslim, took some time out and married Nancy Board, an American Catholic, in June 2003 in a native Alaskan Haida-Tsimshian ceremony on a beach near Homer, Alaska.
Split into simpler sentences: During his journey to Alaska to climb Mount McKinley, Eruç took some time out and married Nancy Board in June 2003. Though they are from different cultural and religious backgrounds, Eruç being a Turkish Muslim and Board being an American Catholic, they were married in a native Alaskan Haida-Tsimshian ceremony on a beach near Homer, Alaska.