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VALDEZ, Alaska -- We're standing in a field of rocks in a dense fog, surrounded by icebergs stranded at low tide. This is the terminal moraine of Alaska's Columbia Glacier -- the rocky debris that ...
00000193-6344-d71b-a7fb-ebdf83010000After a winter of outstanding snow conditions, three scientists drove snowmachines up Valdez Glacier this spring, curious to see how far they could get. At ...
Valdez Glacier by kayak. It was to the toe of the Valdez Glacier in southern Alaska that prospectors flocked in the late 1890s in the frenzy of the Klondike Gold Rush. Back then, ...
Wednesday, we took a boat ride to the Columbia Glacier near Valdez, Alaska. The clouds broke up long enough to get an incredible view of the ice. We passed icebergs that were up to 50 feet ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Columbia Glacier near Valdez is retreating so quickly that tour boats should be able to work their way up to its face within the next decade or so, a scientist says. The ...
On a summer’s evening in 2019, Zach Sheldon watched huge chunks of ice break off Valdez Glacier in Alaska as it calved into the lake below. The following morning, the experienced tour guide led ...
Anchorage, Alaska -- Authorities in Alaska are investigating the deaths of three kayakers whose bodies were found in the waters of a glacial lake. Officials in the port city of Valdez say they ...
Valdez Glacier pictured an hour after an ice calving event on July 29, 2019, with a marker pointing to the spot where two German tourists and their Austrian guide were found dead the following ...
On a summer’s evening in 2019, Zach Sheldon watched huge chunks of ice break off Valdez Glacier in Alaska as it calved into the lake below. The following morning, the experienced tour guide led ...