Living in Whittier | Alaska Town Where Almost Everyone Lives in One Building | 4K Travel Documentary

Living in Whittier, Alaska, the strange town where almost everyone lives under one roof in the Begich Towers, reached only by a single-lane tunnel. A 4K travel documentary about life in Whittier today. Whittier, Alaska is a town where almost everyone lives in ONE 14-storey building, and the only road in is a one-lane tunnel that locks every night at 11. Cut off from the rest of Alaska by a mountain, Whittier's 272 residents share the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel with trains. Miss the last window and you're a "Prisoner of Whittier" until morning. Behind those gates, nearly the whole town lives inside Begich Towers, a former Army building with its own post office, police station, clinic, store, and an underground tunnel to the school. In this 4K travel documentary, we explore: How a secret WWII Army base became a town under one roof The 1964 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 1 in 5 residents Daily life when the only road closes every night The September 2026 fire that destroyed the town's $80 million cruise dock The unstable mountainside at Barry Arm scientists are watching for a tsunami Why the people who live here still call it home Would YOU live in Whittier? Tell us in the comments, and subscribe for more documentaries about the world's most remote places people call home. Sources: CBS News, CNN, Alaska Beacon, U.S. Geological Survey, State of Alaska, U.S. Census Bureau. #Whittier #Alaska #TravelDocumentary