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December 27, 2007

 

Photo: Fissure-lined glacier

Glacier, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, 2002

Photograph by Frans Lanting

A crumpled ice field forms at the confluence of two massive glaciers in Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. These glacial rivers snake together among the park's mountains and form ice complexes that cover hundreds—sometimes thousands—of square miles.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Alaska's Giant of Ice and Stone," March 2003, National Geographic magazine)

 

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