Ambler, AK

united states

Ambler is an isolated Inupiat village in Alaska's Northwest Arctic Borough, home to 182 residents along the Kobuk River. No roads reach this remote community - access is only by plane through Ambler Airport or by boat during the brief summer season. The village sits 45 miles northeast of Kotzebue in a landscape of tundra and boreal forest, where residents maintain traditional subsistence lifestyles centered on caribou hunting and salmon fishing.