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Kennicott Bikers, Alaska, 1993

Photo: Bikers ride tram over Kennicott river

Two mountain bikers cross the Kennicott River via a hand-drawn tram in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. The primitive cable car replaced a bridge washed out by the raging Kennicott, and at the time of this photo, it was the only way (save flying) into the historical mining village of McCarthy.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Wrangell-St. Elias National Park: Alaska's Sky-High Wilderness," May 1994, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by George F. Mobley