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The highest peaks in North America describe an arc across southern Alaska and down the western coast of Canada. This is a land of scale, where huge mountains wear thick cloaks of snow and ice. Climbing here is both arduous and dangerous — and that’s the allure that finds this climbing team making its way up the Kahiltna Glacier under Mount Hunter’s west ridge toward Denali, in search of the joy of feeling so small in a world so grand.
