Clouds loom over a vast autumn landscape in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.

"Here bigness is a trademark. Nine of the 16 highest peaks in the U.S. are found in Wrangell-St. Elias. The park could swallow five Yellowstones. Lands privately owned within its borders total a million acres, most of them set aside in the Alaska Native Claim Settlement Act of 1971. Yet fewer than a hundred people live here year-round."

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Alaska's Sky-High Wilderness," May 1994, National Geographic magazine)