Wow. That place is amazingly gorgeous, so of course it must be extra deadly...
That's a good way to put it.
There is nothing about Alaska that isn't just absolutely gorgeous. Ten thousand foot mountains that just jump up out of the sea straight up...
There's a place in the inland passage where the channel between the islands is only about a hundred yards wide, but the mountains on either side are thousands of feet high, and yet the channel is several hundred feet deep.
Big ships run through there, and you feel like the ship is brushing the trees on either side, but the beaches are steep and they just drop off quick.