The Bering Glacier is the largest glacier in North America, covering more than 2,000 square miles. At the foot of Mount Saint Elias is the Malaspina Glacier, which covers an area larger than Rhode Island and is the largest piedmont glacier in North America. We land in and fly around these spectacular natural features, as well as explain their natural history, science, and origin. There are seven distinct Native cultures, and many sub-cultures, in Alaska. The primary Native cultures are the Inupiat and Yupik Eskimos of the Far North, the Aleuts of the Southwest, the Athabascan Indians of the Interior, and the Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian Indians of the Inside Passage.
Many Native people are bilingual in English as well as their own dialect.
Different languages, cultural traditions, art forms, and a more leisurely sense of time are encountered in the villages we visit. We may come upon racks of salmon drying in the summer sun or a whale-hunting expedition in the spring or fall. During our June and July trips you will experience longer daylight hours due to the summer solstice. In August and September there may be opportunities for seeing the Northern lights on clear evenings especially in the Arctic. In Southeast Alaska, May and June tend to be sunnier and dryer than August, although this varies from summer to summer.