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, the ice stretched almost all the way to ...
The five-hour Valdez trip is ... the most prominent glacier that can be seen from the boat [today],” says Jason Hill, district manager of Aramark Destinations in Alaska, which operates day ...
Heavy snow is a fact of life in the Great Lakes snowbelts and Mountain West. But on Jan. 16, 1990, 35 years ago, an Alaska town was clobbered by a series of snowstorms impressive even by local ...
A sea otter feeding in Glacier Bay, Alaska photographed by scientist Jim ... The sea otter was one of the many species harmed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. Nearly 1000 otters were found ...