Katmai National Park and Preserve: The Ends of the Earth

Plot Summary

The Alaska Peninsula, a cloud-cloaked landscape of active volcanoes and rolling tundra, inspired this filmic essay of a distant land where bears outnumber people and the sockeye salmon run is the most productive in the world. At the base of the peninsula lies Katmai National Park and Preserve, a wilderness larger than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined, and home to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Farther down the peninsula the giant Aniakchak volcanic caldera emerges from the horizon—so remote that more people climb Mt. Everest than visit Aniakchak National Monument. With stunning photography and a sweeping orchestral score, The Ends of the Earth celebrates this magnificent land of wilderness and wildlife.