Conquering mountains
MOUNT MCKINLEY, Alaska -- Chief Warrant Officer 3 Mark Simon of 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, helps National Park Service mountaineering rangers unload survival equipment from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on the Base Camp on the Lower Kahiltna Glacier in Denali National Park. Soldiers from the 1-52nd ???Flying Dragons??? provided cargo assistance to the rangers??? effort to establish this season???s base camp for mountain climbers preparing to ascend Mount McKinley or other peaks nearby. (Photo by Army Staff Sgt. Brehl Garza/USARAK TDT)