For the Daily Times, editor Bob Atwood opined, “Only a wag would suggest trading the Panhandle of Alaska to Canada in return for 10,000 square miles of useless mountain peaks and glaciers.

The Coast Mountains (snow-capped, and visible in the image's top left) cover the Alaska Panhandle (not visible) in the United States and most of coastal British Columbia (top left) in Canada.

Despite challenging conditions Simon Richardson and Mark Robson have made the first ascent of five hitherto unclimbed peaks in the Stikine Range in South-East Alaska, including Peak 7180, one of the ...

The region offshore from the Alaska Panhandle west of northern B.C. was a hotspot for seismic activity. ... three of the most significant ones measured within the 4.0- to 5.0-magnitude range.