Above the Wrangell St. Elias
Aside from experienced mountaineers who can scramble across crevassed glaciers at a single bound, about the only way to really see this country is from the air. The enormity of this landscape is nearly impossible to communicate, even with photographs. This is but a small sampling.
An unnamed glacier makes a tortuous turn down what is likely Frederika Mountain into Middle Fork Glacier.
Massive Klutlan Glacier bends around a peak. Mountains in this vicinity are about 10,000 to 12,000 feet high.
Mansion-sized icebergs topped with dirt slowly melt in a lake at the terminus of Nizina Glacier.
Skolai Creek chews away at the south edge of Nizina Glacier, causing these icefalls.
Aquamarine ponds and snow patches create this mesmerizing pattern on the Nizina Glacier.
Dwarf fireweed turns gravel bars on McCarthy Creek a subtle shade of pink.
Medial moraines give Russell Glacier its striped look.
After its lake-forming ice dam melted to the point where it could no longer hold back water, the icebergs were suddenly left high and dry.
