How Alaska Bush Pilots Sleep in Their Plane on the Most Freezing Nights
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How Alaska Bush Pilots Sleep in Their Plane on the Most Freezing Nights
You've seen the pictures. A small plane on skis. A frozen lake. Mountains behind it, and a sky so blue it doesn't look real.
Every one of those pictures is taken in daylight. And in an Alaska winter, daylight doesn't last long. Nobody photographs what happens after dark.
So picture this instead. It's January, somewhere in the interior of Alaska. Forty below. There is no road out here. There never was. A pilot has landed on a frozen lake to drop off supplies, and the weather has closed in behind him. He's not flying out tonight.
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How Alaska Bush Pilots Sleep in Their Plane on the Most Freezing Nights
Plane Inside
78,200 views
How Alaska Bush Pilots Sleep in Their Plane on the Most Freezing Nights
You've seen the pictures. A small plane on skis. A frozen lake. Mountains behind it, and a sky so blue it doesn't look real.
Every one of those pictures is taken in daylight. And in an Alaska winter, daylight doesn't last long. Nobody photographs what happens after dark.
So picture this instead. It's January, somewhere in the interior of Alaska. Forty below. There is no road out here. There never was. A pilot has landed on a frozen lake to drop off supplies, and the weather has closed in behind him. He's not flying out tonight.