PRESS KIT · PHOTOGRAPHS
60 original frames from the August 2026 trip: the corridor country from the air, the rivers and lakes, the road that already exists, a week on the water, and the tundra floor. Every one is licensed: rates and requests on our licensing page.
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Every photograph here was made by More Than Just Parks in the Brooks Range and along the Dalton Highway in August 2026. Every use needs a license: rates and requests at https://morethanjustparks.com/licensing/. Licensed use carries the visible credit "More Than Just Parks" and, online, a link to https://morethanjustparks.com/ambler-road/. No resale, no AI training. Captions describe the country generally; don't add a place name the caption doesn't give.
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The corridor country and the Brooks Range from the plane: valleys with no road, no structure and no cut in them.
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A braided river winding through a valley with no road, no structure and no cut in it
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Storm light over a wide river valley in the corridor country
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A river winds down a mountain valley toward storm cloud
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A river loops across a valley floor below the range
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A large river cutting through green hills under summer haze
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A wide river valley running between dark mountain ridges
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A river meandering across a broad valley below a cloud-capped peak
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A braided river winding down an unbroken valley under low cloud
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Tundra wetlands threaded with small streams and ponds
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A tundra pond ringed in rust orange where iron stains the waterline
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Flat tundra scattered with small ponds and dark drainage lines
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Open spruce forest with no clearing or track in it, straight down
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The water the road would cross, 2,932 times by the record's count, and the mountains it would cross under.
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A river meandering in tight loops across a green floodplain
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Braided channels and pale gravel bars through spruce forest
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A river bend below steep mountains
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A river curving below steep peaks
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A rainbow falling onto tundra beside a winding river
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A long mountain lake below storm cloud
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Mountains rising beyond a lake fringed with spruce
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A long narrow lake held between mountain ridges
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Spruce on a lakeshore reflected in still water
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Dark ridgelines under heavy cloud
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Peaks half hidden in cloud beyond a green valley
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Cloud-wrapped peaks rising beyond green lowland
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The Dalton Highway and the pipeline corridor, the nearest built comparison to what the Ambler Road would be: gravel, pads, material sites, tankers.
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The Dalton Highway and the pipeline cutting a straight line through boreal forest
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A road dead straight through spruce and wetland
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A gravel road crossing a meandering river and its oxbow lakes
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The Dalton Highway and the trans-Alaska pipeline side by side through unbroken spruce
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Straight down on a gravel industrial road through spruce
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A gravel road curving past a stripped material site cut into the forest
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A cleared gravel pad cut into spruce forest along the corridor
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A cleared industrial pad with equipment and fuel drums in open spruce
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A gravel industrial road from the roadside
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A tanker pulling onto the gravel haul road
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The trans-Alaska pipeline on its supports beside the gravel highway
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The haul road and the pipeline through forest, seen through breaking cloud
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Coldfoot and the Dalton Highway beside the Koyukuk River
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A gravel airstrip laid straight across open tundra
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What the country is used for now: a week on the water in August, the catch on the coals, and the floatplanes that are the only way in.
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An angler mid-cast on a lake below the range
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An angler casting from the shallows of a mountain lake
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Two anglers wading a lake below the range, one mid-cast
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Two anglers in the water below a mountainside
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The catch, cooked in foil on the coals of a shore fire
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Opening the foil on the coals
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Canoes along the far shore of a lake under the forest
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A floatplane pulled up on a lakeshore
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Two floatplanes on a lake below cloud-covered mountains
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Bush planes on a gravel airstrip below the mountains
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A hand-painted mosquito sign on a roadhouse wall, All Clear to Blood Bath
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Fuel pumps and a steel garage in the mud yard of a roadhouse on the haul road
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The tundra floor and what lives on it: lichen, berries, birds, a dragonfly, the cobbles in the rivers.
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Tundra ground cover: pale lichen, red leaves and low berry plants
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A red-capped mushroom pushing up through the lichen
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A stand of deep red tundra plants against pale ground cover
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Red berries, lichen and small mushrooms on the tundra floor
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A carpet of pale lichen
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A loon on open water
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A small bird taking off from a bare spruce branch
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A dragonfly on the tip of a young spruce
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Wet river cobbles in browns and oranges
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Low cloud drifting through dark spruce on a mountainside
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