TED Magazine - February 2017

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MEETING GREAT CHALLENGES IN A GREAT LAND

ALASKA WAS KNOWN TO THE ORIGINAL ALEUT SETTLERS AS “ALYESKA,” WHICH MEANS “THE GREAT LAND”—AND IT IS, INDEED, GREAT: IN SIZE, IN WILDERNESS, IN WEATHER, AND IN OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE WHO MASTER ITS VAST CHALLENGES.

by Jan Niehaus

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