For generations, Alex Sewell's family has relied on the fertile ground of the Roaring Fork Valley—but the fifth-generation rancher decided to take to the skies. Alex started learning to fly helicopters in Boise, and eventually helped open a flight school there.

But the Rockies were his home, and today Alex helps others revel in the breathtaking scenery of his childhood with his commercial-helicopter enterprise, Alpine Aviation. Alex takes passengers on aerial tours of the Rocky Mountain landscape, offering views of springs and snow-covered forests as well as the canyons that Lewis and Clark dug themselves so long ago.