Glacier Bay National Park became the Nation's 50th. U.S. National Park on December 2, 1980. Today, it is home to one of ...

IN a recent number of NATURE (vol. xxxii. p. 162) an abstract is made of a San Francisco newspaper account of the “Great Glacier” of Alaska. This account is not very accurate, and as I spent a ...

GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK, Alaska – A giant, hollow breath, deep as a crevasse, breaks the predawn quiet. Just off the lip of the shallow, rocky beach where my tent is pitched, a 40-ton behemoth ...

THERE IS NO HIKING trail to Lamplugh Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park. So our guide-led party of 10 used thickets of willow shrubs and berry bushes that sprout from the rock ...

IN Mr. G. W. Lamplugh's interesting article on “The ‘Muir Glacier’ of Alaska,” published in your issue for January 28 (p. 299), appears the erroneous statement that Glacier Bay opens into ...