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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the wee hours of March 24, 1989, the channel connecting the Alaskan port of Valdez with Prince William Sound was riddled with icebergs shed from the deteriorating Columbia Glacier, a massive ...
The victims were identified as a married couple, both 67, and a 62-year-old man Authorities in Alaska are investigating the death of three German tourists whose bodies were discovered near Valdez ...