WASHINGTON: Alaska is often just a fuel stop for US presidents headed for Asia.

But Barack Obama will spend three days in The Last Frontier next week and become the first sitting US president to visit the Alaskan Arctic, the setting of the most spectacular impacts of climate change.

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