Camped on a glacier, ... Icy moon explorer gets an Alaska road test. By Lisa Grossman. 23 July 2014 ... I’m standing on Matanuska glacier in Alaska.

For most of the glacier tours, Alaska Helicopter Tours uses the Robinson R-44 four-place helicopter. ... With the multiple landings, the Chugach Explorer costs a little more, $564.

Explorer William Dall in 1874 named the glacier for the French ship commander who sailed here in 1786. La Perouse fled Alaska soon after he lost 21 men to tidal currents at the mouth of nearby ...

The Eklutna traverse, near Anchorage, crosses four glaciers alongside the rugged peaks of Chugach State Park. The 38-mile trip is a popular spring adventure for local and visiting mountaineers.

In Alaska, some glaciers are changing so quickly, said Chris Larsen, a geophysicist at Fairbanks, that he can no longer remember what they looked like 10 years ago. “It’s worse than watching a ...

Catch unbelievably large halibut, kayak among the awesome bald eagle, take a helicopter to explore a glacier, dig for clams, watch waves of salmon as they swim upstream to spawn, canoe with ...

Travelers visiting Alaska often want to see its glaciers, but they don’t look like they used to. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight on America U.S. Politics ...

Alaskan ice and sea-level rise. Ice loss from glaciers and icefields as a result of human-caused global warming has been shown to contribute to rising sea levels, and Alaska is expected to remain ...

Central Florida Explorer Patrick Connolly left the Sunshine State to experience Alaska, a land filled with moose, bears, glaciers and mountains.

In 1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous locations ...

Ride a train into the very heart of Alaska's wilderness, dog sled with a competitor of the world famous Ididatrod, ride horses into a beautiful high mountain pass, get rocked by waves as large ...