Umnak Island

When Cody was 6, Dial brought him on his first expedition: a 60-mile bushwhacking trek across Umnak Island in the Alaskan Aleutians, a journey that would challenge even expert adult backpackers.

Clouds gather over Umnak Island and its volcanic neighbours in the Aleutian Island chain.

Mount Vsevidof, a symmetrical stratovolcano, rises 2,149m and dominates the skyline of the southern portion of Umnak Island.

Next day 18 bombers guarded by 16 fighters attacked Dutch Harbor again, while nine other bombers struck at Fort Glenn on Umnak Island 70 miles west, where two more raiders were destroyed.

In 1795, during a period of volcanic activity in the craters of Makushina, on Unalaska, and in others on Umnak Island, a volume of smoke was seen to rise out of the sea about 42 miles to the north of Unalaska, and the next year it was followed by a heap of cindery material, from which arose flame and volcanic matter, the glow being visible over a radius of ten miles.