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May 30, 2025

A section of above-ground trans-Alaska pipeline follows the landscape near the Klutina River south of Glennallen. Photo by Ned Rozell.

The greatest story of man and permafrost

In 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world — an 800-mile steel pipeline that carried warm oil over frozen ground.
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