ANCHORAGE — Five men all severely wounded in war, including four who had amputations, had to abandon their climb of North America’s tallest peak, but say it was weather and not their disabilities that ended the summit attempt.

The five men descended Alaska’s Mount McKinley on Monday. The climb of the 20,320-foot mountain started on June 11.

They spent nine days waiting out weather at the 14,200-foot level. On Saturday, they again attempted to make 16,200 feet, but were turned back by a blizzard.

GIRDWOOD — The full moon and its alignment with the sun combined to send a short wall of water rushing back into a narrow Alaska inlet, creating the largest bore tide this year and an opportunity for surfers and kayakers to ride a rare wave to the beach.

The wave Tuesday evening was about 3 feet high, not much compared to what people in Hawaii or California are accustomed to, but exciting enough by Alaska standards.

ANCHORAGE — Charles Baird is going off the grid for a year.

The 40-year-old oil company employee and filmmaker from Anchorage will move to the mostly uninhabited Latouche Island in Alaska’s Prince William Sound at the end of May, completing a dream he’s been contemplating for 17 years.

Baird will build a 12x12 shed to shelter him from the elements, and he plans to hunt and fish and fend off an occasional black bear during his sojourn to the Alaska wilderness.

ANCHORAGE — Ketchikan Gateway Borough officials are weighing what to do with a photograph of former Mayor Jack Shay after it was stolen from its spot alongside pictures of other mayors, then put back up and removed again due to complaints, after the 80-year-old pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.

The photograph was pulled from the wall in the Assembly’s meeting room and temporarily put into mothballs Wednesday.

That was two days after Shay entered his plea to seven counts of possessing child porn.