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In this photo taken Monday July 30, 2012, an Alaska SeaLife Center employee prepares a walrus calf for transport aboard a U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane in Barrow, Alaska. The Coast Guard crew assisted Alaska Department of Fish and Game and Alaska SeaLife Center personnel transporting three malnourished walrus calves to Anchorage for care.

KTUU-TV reports -- A Pacific walrus calf has been taken in by the Alaska SeaLife Center after apparently becoming separated from its herd earlier this month near Barrow.

Center staff say the male calf, estimated to be four to six weeks old, was spotted by fishermen Saturday in North Salt Lagoon, after a large group of walrus passed Barrow on floating ice July 17. The calf was rescued by members of the North Slope Borough's Department of Wildlife Management after observation and approval by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife, then placed under the care of a veterinarian.

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In this photo take Monday July 30, 2012, two U.S. Coast Guard crew members aboard a HC-130 Hercules airplane transfer a baby walrus from the plane to an Air Force truck at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage, Alaska.

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A great gray owl perches on a branch in a neighborhood park on Friday, March 9, 2012, in south Anchorage, Alaska. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game says the owl's distinctive facial disk and its feathers help direct sounds toward its ear openings, and that it can hear mice and other rodents under two feet of snow. Bird watchers have reported repeated sightings of the normally reclusive great gray owl in Anchorage throughout the winter.

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Tim Remick photographed emotionally and physically ravaged mountain climbers just after they returned to Mount McKinley's base camp, still raw from the grueling experience.

So, you think your last business trip or family vacation was exhausting? Trust us, if you want to know what exhausted truly looks like, check out After: Portraits from Denali, a new photographic exhibit on display at the Anchorage Museum Feb. 3–April 15.

Tim Remick

The work of local photographer Tim Remick, the exhibit consists of 20 large-format (44” x 57”) photographs of the faces of climbers on Denali, aka, Mount McKinley, the tallest peak in North America.

But instead of capturing them on their ascent or standing triumphantly on the mountain’s 20,320-foot summit, Remick chose to photograph them moments after they’d stumbled back into base camp while they were still raw from the experience.

“I wanted to document that point where the human body goes past exhaustion, where people hit that wall and push beyond it,” said Remick, who experienced that feeling firsthand during his own attempt on Denali in 2002.

He returned in 2010 and spent 10 days shooting post-climb portraits at the main base camp/staging area on the Kahiltna Glacier. “There were all sorts of responses based on the environment, the weather, whether their experience was positive or negative,” he told msnbc.com. “It was all reflected in their faces.”

Tim Remick

But he’s also quick to point out that the exhibit is not really about climbing at all: “The climbers’ faces are the subject matter but the body of work is about how the viewer perceives it. We’ve all had that feeling of, wow, I feel like that guy looks.”

In fact, according to Julie Decker, the museum’s chief curator, it’s that universality that’s at the heart of the exhibit. “Just because you don’t climb doesn’t mean you can’t relate to these people,” she said. “Everybody has had these moments when their reserves are gone, their emotions are raw and they’re too tired to pose.”

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If you're like me, you could hardly wait to hear how the giant pumpkin I PhotoBlogged earlier did at the Alaska State Fair.

The Anchorage Daily News has the full story.

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Dale Marshall checks a small hole on the bottom of his 1,723 pound pumpkin that kept him from winning or setting a record at the Alaska State Fair grounds in Palmer, Alaska on Wednesday, Aug. 31. The giant gourd was grown by Marshall in his backyard greenhouse. Puncture or not, the pumpkin is in rare company. The world record weight for a pumpkin is 1,810 pounds. The winner was a 1,287-pound pumpkin that is the biggest pumpkin ever grown for the annual Giant Pumpkin competition at the state fair.

It's giant pumpkin time. The Guinness record for the heaviest pumpkin is 1810.5 lbs. If this Alaska grower's estimate of 1,780 lbs. for this baby is correct, he may have a chance at the record.

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Dale Marshall is dwarfed by an Atlantic Giant Pumpkin that he estimates to be around 1,780-pounds inside a greenhouse in Anchorage on Aug. 29. The giant pumpkin was started by seed on April 1 and has a 202-inch circumference. He plans to enter the pumpkin in the Alaska State Fair during the weigh-off on Wednesday in Palmer. Marshall holds the state record with a 1,101 pound pumpkin that he entered in the state fair last year.

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Dale Marshall of Anchorage closes the door to the 500-square-foot greenhouse where he's growing an Atlantic Giant Pumpkin that he estimates to be around 1,780-pounds on Aug. 29.