Crown of the Continent

Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias, one of the newest, largest, and least-visited of America's national parks, is a place where adjectives like "bigger," "taller," "wider," and "remote" soon become repetitive--a land of glaciers, volcanoes, hot springs, unnamed mountains, scoured valleys, and abundant wildlife that has seldom felt the footprint of man. In Crown of the Continent, filmmaker John Grabowska offers viewers a rare glimpse into this frozen Shangri-la in a breathtaking production that took months to complete due to the vagaries of the park's challenging winter. Grabowska, who went to Wrangell-St. Elias with his father back in the late 1960s, has returned as an adult to create this award-winning, intimate look at a land that most of us will never see in person, but are nevertheless able to appreciate thanks to this gorgeous program produced by the National Park Service. Highly recommended. Editor's Choice. Aud: P. (J. Carlson)