1.   Mount McKinley provides a dramatic backdrop for an Alaskan winter holiday.

2.   Sunbelt city boy Cuba Gooding Jr. heads into the icy Alaskan winter for an unexpected journey of self discovery ... by dog sled.

3.   The Alaskan winters were long, my friend said, and every year, when the world went dark, he was overrun by a plague of mice.

4.   To those who endure the long and dark Alaskan winters, it must have seemed positively balmy.