The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of ... them to Seattle and then onto a ship for Seward, an ice-free port south of Anchorage.

Winter in Alaska has waterfalls frozen mid-cascade, ice caves so blue they look unreal, and lakes so clear you can skate across them like glass.

Alaska -- The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a contagious dis ...