Alaska has half of all the glaciers in the earth so there are a lot of chances to find up close and personal with them. Sadly they also seem to be melting earlier than recently concerning any extra glaciers in the world. So the opportunities can stay, well, melting away.
There are plenty of places somewhere glaciers easily suspend in the backdrop (as glaciers frequently do), however at Kennecott, the Kennicott Glacier (memo the subtle spelling difference) cruises by, parallel to the main road of the older ghost city.
‘That’s a glacier?’ you might wonder while you first sight it. Yes, that large group that looks love a long gravel-covered fold line on the extra side of the valley is in fact a glacier, unseen by the debris it’s carried behind the valley over the centuries.
Continue further up the valley and the Root Glacier looks more love a glacier should: white and also icy. My glacier skill with Kennicott Wilderness Guides kicked off by an introductory visit to an ice cave in the debris-covered lower stretch of the glacier. Kitted out by crampons plus ice axes, we headed up to the ‘concrete’ glacier the next morning. A daylight of ice climbing lessons taken: ‘be positive however delicate’ is perhaps the simplest method to describe the technique. Hit that ice axe solidly into the ice, poise dexterously on the points of your crampons and also then step vertically up the ice barrier for four or five paces.
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