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The Alaska Range reflects off Army Staff Sgt. Evan Sutton's visors as he watches for danger while his CH-47 Chinook helicopter flies along the range on its way to Kahiltna Glacier, Alaska, May 20, 2013. Sutton and the helicopter crew transported a team of eight soldiers and one Army civilian from Fort Wainwright to the National Park Service base camp on the glacier to begin their attempt to climb Mount McKinley, North America's tallest peak.

The Alaska Range reflects off Army Staff Sgt. Evan Sutton's visors as he watches for danger while his CH-47 Chinook helicopter flies along the range on its way to Kahiltna Glacier, Alaska, May 20, 2013. Sutton and the helicopter crew transported a team of eight soldiers and one Army civilian from Fort Wainwright to the National Park Service base camp on the glacier to begin their attempt to climb Mount McKinley, North America's tallest peak.

The Alaska Range reflects off Army Staff Sgt. Evan Sutton's visors as he watches for danger while his CH-47 Chinook helicopter flies along the range on its way to Kahiltna Glacier, Alaska, May 20, 2013. Sutton and the helicopter crew transported a team of eight soldiers and one Army civilian from Fort Wainwright to the National Park Service base camp on the glacier to begin their attempt to climb Mount McKinley, North America's tallest peak.

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