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Bike Expedition, Alaska, 1996

Photo: Bike Expedition

A seven-week bike trip along the Alaska Range led cyclists Carl Tobin, Paul Adkins, and Roman Dial across a variety of landscapes. Icy glacial streams were among the obstacles the trio met along their journey.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Biking Across the Alaska Range," May 1997, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Bill Hatcher

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