Denali

The scale arrives before the words do. Ridges stack behind ridges, the tundra changes color with the light, and the Alaska Range fills a horizon that never quite fits in a photograph.

We come back to the small details, too: the shape of a river channel, the stillness between gusts, the stretch of country between one glimpse of wildlife and the next. They are the starting points for our Denali illustrations.

Photography: NPS / Tim Rains. Image credits.