Alaska is celebrating the centenary of its largest city, Anchorage, this year – and if you are planning a trip to the 49th state this summer, World Expeditions offers a number of itineraries, including:

Alaska – The Dramatic Northwest
Explore Alaska's breathtaking landscapes and come face to face with its indigenous people and wildlife. This trip brings together the very best of Alaska as you hike on glaciers, travel by boat through fjords, kayak around icebergs and walk through spectacular national parks. Encounter marine and mountain wildlife (from sea lions and whales to moose and bears), take in the stunning alpine meadows and glacial wonders of Denali and the Talkeetna Mountains and appreciate the characteristic sweeping tundra ridges and sharp granite peaks.
www.worldexpeditions.com/uk/index.php?section=trips&id=29955
• Alaska – The Dramatic Northwest (12 days) departs June-August, from £3,150 per person

Alaska: Wrangell-St. Elias Range
A rare opportunity to explore the 'mountain kingdom of North America', pristine and remote landscapes in one of the world's most rugged environments: with over 13 million acres of pure untouched wilderness, the Wrangell-St Elias National Park is the world's largest internationally protected area. Enjoy a spectacular bush flight, cross open alpine tundra and immense glaciers, hike directly beneath the vertical and heavily glaciated north face of Mount Jarvis and view indigenous wildlife such as bears, wolves, caribou and moose.
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• Alaska: Wrangell-St. Elias Range (12 days) departs July-August, from £2,690 per person

Wild in the Last Frontier with Yomads    
Yomads, World Expeditions' latest brand, is tailored especially for travellers in their 20s and 30s and on this trip you will travel towards Chitina, the so-called 'end of the world', and the village of McCarthy with its 28 inhabitants. Hike along Root Glacier to view a 2,000m high icefall (or try an iceclimb on the glacier itself!), spot herds of caribou through broad tundra valleys and see grizzly bears in the heart of Denali National Park. Staying in wilderness camps and a true Alaskan cabin, optional activities include bushplane flight-seeing, sea kayaking and enjoying a wood-fired log sauna.
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• Wild in the Last Frontier with Yomads (14 days): departs June-August, from £1,550 per person

For more information please contact World Expeditions (www.worldexpeditions.co.uk, 0800 0744 135) and Yomads (www.yomads.com, 0800 0744 135). Prices do not include international flights, however these can be arranged on request.

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Notes for editors:
• One of the very first operators in what is now becoming a very popular area in travel, since its inception in 1975 World Expeditions has earned itself an outstanding reputation as a world leader in small group adventure holidays and cultural journeys.
• The two factors that distinguish World Expeditions from its competitors, the number of inclusions and the exceptional value of its trips, can be found today in more than 500 stand-alone itineraries, escorted by expert leaders and meticulously designed for those travellers who want to take the 'paths less travelled'.
• Always innovative, it was, among others, the first operator to offer cycling holidays in India (1977) and China (1978) and trekking trips in Mongolia (1980) and Tibet (1981). In 2013 it launched a dedicated 'World Cycle Journeys' programme, while as of 2011 it is the only company to offer the newly mapped Great Himalaya Trail.
• World Expeditions is independently owned and a truly global company, with nine offices around the world, including London, Sydney and Montreal.

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