Residents in rowhouses try to keep warm along the Yukon River. The 2,000-mile-long (3,219-kilometer-long) Yukon River is home, highway, and hunting grounds to 36,000 people scattered along its wild banks. For residents of the Yukon, there are few modern conveniences and even less modern constraints, which is the way they like it.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Untamed Yukon River," July 1998, National Geographic magazine)