Duration

1 Hour and 15 Minutes

About

Denali (Mt. McKinley) is one of the most spectacular alpine areas in the world. The view is great from the road look-out, but you have to fly into Denali to see the incredible alpine area surrounding the summit. Experience Alaska with N2 Alaska’s Mt. McKinley flight tours.

It takes 15 to 20 minutes of flying from Talkeetna just to get into the Alaska Range. The Ruth Amphitheater tour gets you deep into the mountains, and where this tour turns back toward Talkeetna, the Base camp tour continues on. Fifteen more minutes flying from this point is the base camp tour, this will take you past the knife edge ridge of Huntington, over the Tokositna Glacier to Hunter.

Dug in at the bottom of the North Face of Hunter is “Base Camp”, the South East Fork of the Kahiltna. This is where most of the Climbers start their climb up Denali. The average trip up and back to base camp is 28 days. If you’re flying over during peak climbing season (May and June) you will see an almost continuous line of climbers working their way up the Kahiltna glacier to the Summit or on their way back down. We’ll turn around over the Kahiltna between the Summits of Foraker and Denali and start our decent back to Talkeetna down the 50 mile long glacier. I like to take a short cut through the granite peaks of Little Switzerland, then over the gold rich valleys of the Dutch and Peters Hills. You have a good chance of seeing bears on the Mountain sides here, if the berries are out. The best place to see the Moose will be in the lush wet marsh areas along the wide braided glacier river valleys that we fly over returning to Talkeetna.

More Info

Pricing is per person!

What To Bring

You will want to layer your clothing so you can add or take off layers. Make sure your camera/video camera is charged and has lots of memory. This will help you get all those great pictures for holiday cards and photo albums. We suggest you bring sunglasses.

About Your Pilot

David is an Airline Transport rated pilot and has logged over 10,000 hours of flying in Alaska’s majestic wilderness. He has flown 13 seasons commercially on Denali with thousands of glacier landings, flying in climbers and giving scenic tours. In 1985, David built a beautiful log home at the base of Denali, 12 miles from the closest road. His commute to work involved taking a riverboat to a gravel bar to get to his airplane to fly into Talkeetna. After flying all day on Denali he would fly back to the gravel bar and take his river boat home. A life spent living in the bush of Alaska, building his own log home and flying, has given David many interesting stories to tell. Hop aboard and have the time of your life!