One thing about Alaska that amazes our guests is the sheer scale of the wilderness here. There are endless mountain peaks here no one has ever scaled. Hidden valleys no one has ever explored on foot. Places it would literally be impossible to go -- unless you can strap on a pair of wings.
Check out the latest video installment of Beyond, our video series that gives you a chance to fly along with the Claus family and guests as they explore the Alaskan wilderness.
An Alaskan flight safari is all about giving yourself over to the spirit of adventure. Lose yourself in sunlight and air currents. Find stillness in the majestic shadow of an 18-thousand-foot vertical rock face; feel the thrill of power as your pilot goes into a climb, hugging the cliff, riding an updraft. Your Super Cub s
oars past the hidden perches of Goats and Dall sheep and suddenly you erupt over the mountaintop into a world of sunlight.
The first time you climb into the back of a turbo-powered, single-engine Super Cub you’ll understand why we say it’s the closest thing there is to strapping on a pair of wings. Your pilot knows this plane, knows this wilderness. He was born for this.
There is magic in the air as we fly over mountains, glaciers and rivers. But the real magic happens when we land.
In these tiny, powerful planes with their big, bouncy rubber wheels, our pilots can touch down on a remote mountaintop or hidden valley it would have taken a month of 
hiking to reach on foot or might not be possible to reach at all any other way. Alight on a mountaintop, a ridge, on a glacier or a rocky streambed. Step down from your plane and eat a picnic lunch in a field of wildflowers where no living person has ever set foot.
For all its power and agility in the air, it may be that the Super Cub’s greatest power is the way it brings us down to earth -- gently, deep in untouched wilderness. Up close and personal.
There is no other way to see this land.
