
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.

Coast Guard aviators test themselves in a dangerous exercise to rescue casualties from a mountain; Scientists struggle to land on icy tundra; a bush pilot battles America's tallest peak and cargo crews fight to fit an entire bank on a single plane.

Witness wild weather, emergency landings, and animal invaders at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, one of the world's busiest cargo airports.

Travelers from Anchorage get stranded halfway to an island in the Bering Sea, extreme skaters fly into the wilderness in search of Wild Ice and Alaska's premium cargo airline fights to deliver a team of huskies for the world's biggest dog-sled race.

Alaska's aviators fly into the wild for the world's toughest snowmobile race, Anchorage mechanics wrestle with a damaged 737's jet engine, and scientists take to the air to fight back against floods devastating remote communities.