Talkeetna Air Taxi traces its roots to Don Sheldon, one of Alaska's most celebrated bush pilots, who pioneered glacier flying on Denali in the mid-20th century. The company now operates wheeled and ski-equipped planes out of Talkeetna Airport for flightseeing tours, glacier landings, and mountaineer drop-offs on Denali's southeast fork of the Kahiltna Glacier.
The glacier landing tour is the signature experience -- you touch down on a high-altitude glacier, step out into the silence, and look up at Denali from a point that most visitors never reach on foot. Prices are high by any measure, but the experience is hard to compare to anything else in Alaska. Book well ahead in summer; clear-weather windows fill quickly.