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One day in September 1995 I was walking during lunch break with my friend Wojtek Zasada.
We talked about travels. I don't remember who started first, but before lunch break ended I called my travel agent to buy airplane tickets to Alaska.I had no idea where exactly I would go.I knew I would start in Anchorage.
Then I started to hesitate.There was no way back because my travel agent Yvonne bought tickets with the speed of lightning.
After I returned home from work I begun reading where to go.About seven, ten days later I was on the airplane to Anchorage.
- Barrow Airport
Barrow Airport. Several hundred miles north from the Polar Circle - Barrow
Barrow with a population of four thousand is the northernmost community in North America. It is located on the Chukchi sea coast, 10 miles south of Point Barrow from which it takes its name. Barrow is 725 air miles from Anchorage and has an arctic climate. The sun does not set between May 10th - August 2nd each year and does not rise between November 18th - January 24th each winter. The daily minimum temperature is below freezing 324 days of the year. - Barrow
- Barrow Airport
Airplane that brought me to Barrow - Downtown Barrow
Yellow building is the hotel that I stayed in - Barrow Ocean
Arctic Ocean. View from my hotel room. - Barrow
Houses are built above the ground in case there is too much snow fall. Also normal foundations would cause ground to thaw and that would destabilize buildings. - Barrow
One mile outside Barrow. Do not attack polar bears. - Barrow
Tundra and a view of downtown Barrow. - Barrow
Tomasz Hilsberg and bones of a whale - Barrow
Skin of a polar bear - Denali
Owner of a motel outside Denali N.P. with his gold processing equipment - Denali
Dead bear and alive Tomasz Hilsberg - Denali
- Mt McKinley
Mt McKinley as always in clouds