Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Alaska’s hardiest ...

Imagine living in a town buried under 300 inches of snow each year. It might seem impossible, but that's the reality for residents of Valdez, Alaska. As the snowiest town in America, Valdez is a ...

After months of living with uncertainty, a dozen Louisiana residents travel to America's last frontier to get a glimpse into what their futures may hold. They ooh and ah at breaching whales, a calving ...

The pipeline sends Alaska North Slope crude oil from the Beaufort Sea to Valdez's ice-free, deepwater port for shipment. That oil made Valdez rich. But it also put the town on the worldwide news ...

As for smaller towns, the snowiest is Valdez, Alaska, (pop. roughly 4,000), according to National Weather Service data. Valdez picks up an almost unimaginable 23 feet of snow each year.

View west to port Valdez, the glacial fiord that will be the Trans-Alaska pipeline terminus, with Robe lake in the foreground the Lowe river dumps its burden of silty rock flour into port Valdez ...