
A chronicle of the daily challenges of the airport staff who manage to keep the facility open, freight flowing and passengers flying all despite weather that regularly dips to -36 degrees and wind speeds that typically exceed 100 mph.

Father-son aviators battle turbulence to refuel a remote mine, bush pilots fight an aerial jam to reach Alaska's biggest sled race, and the Coastguard turn a C-130 into a bomber to drop supplies on an isolated beach.

Fish and Wildlife aviators battle Arctic conditions to track down a polar bear population; a bush pilot races fading daylight to save a business; Anchorage field crews battle to clear an icy runway; CBP officers investigate suspicious cargo.

Pilots fly over the dangerous Brooks mountains, so engineers can fix a remote weather station, a veteran pilot tests a rookie on their bush plane landings, crews fight ice and wind to save a winter festival, and engineers race.

Witness wild weather, emergency landings, animal invaders and pandemic panics at Alaska's Ted Stevens Airport.