Where else, but in Alaska, do high school sports teams travel to their away games on snow machines along a frozen river? Geo travels to the wide-open tundra of western Alaska to experience how life keeps moving along the Kuskokwim River. ...See moreWhere else, but in Alaska, do high school sports teams travel to their away games on snow machines along a frozen river? Geo travels to the wide-open tundra of western Alaska to experience how life keeps moving along the Kuskokwim River. Translated from the Yupik word for "slow moving thing" - the Kuskokwim is a 724-mile lifeline for the Native Alaskan communities scattered along its length. The river provides a ready-made highway for moving people and goods, year-round. In this episode, Geo races the coming winter "freeze up" to deliver home heating fuel with a tug and barge crew. And once winter descends, he witnesses the transformation of the river into a frozen freeway as he plays mailman on a giant hovercraft for a day, plows out an emergency ice road so that a needy village can get heating oil before they run out and goes on a search and rescue mission for any stragglers on the icy, fierce frozen river. Written by
Huntley, David (III)
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