Don Sheldon's one-man air taxi operation out of Talkeetna defined glacier flying in the Alaska Range and opened Denali to the world's climbing community.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon of Talkeetna, Alaska spent two decades flying climbers onto Denali's glaciers and built the historic Mountain House on the Ruth Glacier in 1966.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon pioneered glacier landing techniques in the Alaska Range across three decades, and his methods remain the standard for high-mountain bush flying today.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon pioneered high-altitude glacier flying in the Alaska Range, built a wilderness hut at 5,800 feet by airlifting materials in a Cessna 180, and left behind a tradition that still defines Talkeetna flying today.
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