Marathon: The Marvels of Alaska
Marathon: The Marvels of Alaska
Explore the majesty of the 49th State with these entertaining stories from the “Sunday Morning” archives.
  • 0:00:10 Charles Osgood looks back on the 1867 purchase of Alaska (2008)
  • 0:02:48 A visit to the Gates of the Arctic National Park (2017)
  • 0:07:00 Surfing in the frigid waters off Yakutat, Alaska (2000)
  • 0:12:37 Luke Burbank on a grueling 750-mile boat race from Port Townsend, Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska (2017)
  • 0:18:04 How WWII soldiers and laborers helped pave the way for Alaska’s expansion (1992)
  • 0:21:41 Prince William Sound, five years after the Exxon Valdez disaster (1994)
  • 0:30:26 The World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks, Alaska (2015)
  • 0:37:38 Raising sled dogs in Denali National Park (2016)
  • 0:42:20 Lee Cowan visits Whittier, Alaska, where nearly the entire population lives under the same roof (2021)
  • 0:47:43 The search for the remains of a U.S. Air Force crew lost in a plane crash on an Alaskan glacier in 1952 (2022)
  • 0:55:09 Humorist David Sedaris on the highlights of his trip to Alaska (2022)
  • 0:57:27 Conor Knighton takes a ride on the Alaska Railroad (2023)
  • 1:03:43 Nature: Northern Lights (2024)

 

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