For Leighan Falley, Alaska is more than home — it’s a calling. Leighan spent years as a ski guide and climber on the Alaskan range, focusing much of her energy on Denali. But after becoming a mother, she found herself unwilling to pursue guiding (and the dangers that come with it), instead taking to the skies as mountain pilot. Follow Leighan on the Alaskan adventures that enrich her life and legacy in Denali’s Raven.
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A Camp 4 Collective Production
Directors – Renan Ozturk + Freddie Wilkinson
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Edited – Kevin Bennet + Renan Ozturk + Freddie Wilkinson
Cinematography – Renan Ozturk + Austin Siadak
Music Supervision – Adam Foley + Kristin Lane
Camera AC – Rudy Lehfeldt-Ehlinger
Aerial Footage – Sanctity of Space film + Daniel Zatz
Glacier Air Support – Paul Roderick Talkeetna Air Taxi
Basecamp Manager – Colby Coombs / Alaska Mountaineering School
Color – Rudy Lehfeldt-Ehlinger
Sound – Coupe Studios
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36 Comments
Amazing ❤
love love love this!
An amazing woman! I am now a big fan of Leighan's 🌻
What a Magnificent Woman.
Awesome story! Showed it to my 10yr old daughter and she absolutely loved it.
Heaven on earth
I got the privilege of being one of her passengers this summer on a flightseeing tour into Denali Base Camp to pick up some climbers. Her experiences added so much to ours as she guided us through the Alaska Range. A truly remarkable lady!
She’s lovely.
DANG SHE CANT SAY DENALI RIGHT… LOCAL NATIVES ARE CRINGING
Man I love Australia but i reckon if I had to settle for anywhere else alaska would be up there!
I have been fortunate to fly with some great Alaskan bush pilots, best memories are flying with Jim Okonek previous owner of k2 out of Talkeetna landing up in Ruth gorge at 5200ft in a cloudless day next to the Don Sheldon,s hit and watching avalanches come down the south face of Denali, as well as flying with MichelleMasden out of Ketchikan Ak throughout Se Ak in her Dehavillend beaver floatplane, one of the best pilots Around,checkout Island wings air!
This is a true story: I went to Pearl Creek with Leighan and the same baby sitter. One day I made up this lie about having cut myself some paper wings at my house that I was flying around the house with. Leighan was intrigued so I told her how she could cut some wings herself to fly around. She tried that night and said it didn't work. "Were they square wings?" I asked. "Yeah, why?" She asked. "Well, they only work with circle wings! That's why it didn't work!" Anyway, I'm pretty sure she told me about how she had spent the whole evening jumping off stairs at her house trying to make herself fly. Moral of the story: she got her wings and is actually flying around while I'm stuck to the ground still flapping my paper circles. I hope Leighan might see this comment some day; I don't have another way of contacting her.
Just wow…
The suuuuuuuun! 😂
I thought Bill Murray did a great job in this video!
I have two daughters. You are my hero!
What a great personal story! And I like that Piper Pacer too!
I love the drawings in the sketch book, made my heart feel warm to see such a lovely lady sketching in a snow storm on top of a mountain.
0:46 I literally started crying. Look at those beautiful mountains
I feel like that speaks to the dangers of guiding, the fact that being a bush plane pilot in the mountains is safer?
Amazing women in Alaska!!! I'm moving !!!
she looks like Anne Hathaway
Cool stuff
U know ur in the middle of absolute nowhere when the satellite phone doesn’t get service.
i love the sole of this lady, from an alaskan and pilot
Nothing like the urban pansies is she? Don't tell my wife I said that
I'm with ya, great story!
You know the dentists can fix those gaps
She was my flightseeing pilot and guide today around Denali and she is absolutely INCREDIBLE
Wow! What a woman! All of them that go hiking in those mountains! Very inspiring! Love the film!
The planes. The mountains. The people. ❤️
Such a great story, awesome footage!!!! well done!
Awesome beautiful story!
This….this right here is how life is supposed to be lived. Not necessarily in Alaska but just going for it. Whatever IT is!!! Just flippin go for it!!!
Maybe put some type of shades on the little one.. you have them on, sooo….😎
P.L.U.R. Denali…. ❤❤❤❤😮🎉😊😊😊😊