Word: glaciered
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...Central Alaska last week came an exciting story. The Black Rapids Glacier, long dying in its valley 125 miles south of Fairbanks, had come to life. Its mile-and-a-quarter face was shoving toward the Delta River and the Richardson Highway (sole motor road from Fairbanks to the coast), rearing ice crests to 500 ft., breaking off great land icebergs which tumbled thunderously ahead onto the mossy valley floor...
Flying from his post at the University of Alaska, Scientist Otto William Geist put up at a little roadhouse two miles down the highway from where the glacier's runoff water joins the Delta. "The roadhouse shook perceptibly and we could hear the distant moaning glacier . . . for all the world like a gigantic dredge." Nearer to, the groaning, booming and thundering was even more awesome. "The glacier is bifurcated. One fork is moving into the other, grinding and crunching at a point five miles back. The intersection is the scene of a giant upheaval. . . . Three days ago we could...
Until last February, when Washburn arrived in the east of the Mt. St. Elias range, no one had ever seen this vast expanse of snow-covered mountains. His work progressed by both airplane and sledge party. For 84 days, from February to June, the expedition was on the glacier or mapping the mountains from...
...Lowell Glacier...
...first part of the expedition, most of the work was by airplane and they took all the supplies out to the base camp, located on a glacier that was named after President-emeritus Lowell...