Normally, we have so many feet of snow throughout the village and the mountains would be packed with snow.

The victim, identified as 28-year-old Alexander Hellweger, was part of a group of eight friends from Italy and Belgium vacationing in Alaska.

5-30-14 Unusually cold and snow - King Cove, Alaska, USA

4-29-14 Sea ice rescue - Barrow, Alaska, USA

4-13-14 River ice treacherous - Bethel, Alaska, USA

Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.

There has been a lack of snow in the Golovin area ever since the January 2014 warm spell.

Mount Sanford has been losing its ice cover for decades around its base.

For the second year in a row, the Anchorage area set a new snowfall record. This year it wasn’t the amount of fluffy stuff that went down in the history books — last year Anchorage had more than 11 feet — but the days between the first and last snowfall.

The sea is our garden for food and other things.

We are having an unseasonable snow storm in southcentral Alaska.

3-5-13 Changing sea ice - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

To say Alaska has been snowy this winter is an understatement. Anchorage broke a 57 year old snowfall record Saturday when a storm produced 4.3 inches of snow on Saturday, April 7, 2012.

A woman was trapped in a pickup on the Seward Highway on Friday after falling ice crushed the vehicle just south of Anchorage.

3-20-12 Aleutian avalanche - Akutan, Alaska, USA

The ice formation along the Seward Highway grabbed my interest because it stood out and was rather unusual.

3-17-12 Ice formation on cliffs - Anchorage, Alaska, USA