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Ice Ride, Alaska, 1996

Photo: Ice Ride

Riding through slush, members of a team of three cyclists press on in their effort to traverse the rugged Alaska Range by mountain bike.

(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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