A glacier tour guide spotted an abandoned inflatable canoe at the toe of Valdez Glacier shortly before finding two German tourists and an Austrian dead nearby on July 30, 2019.

Margerie Glacier “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 tours taking ...

Many travelers make the trek to Alaska for two things: glaciers and whales. The latter can be a bit more elusive to spot, which is why it's best to sign up for a whale watching tour. In Juneau ...

On a summer’s evening in 2019, Zach Sheldon watched huge chunks of ice break off Valdez Glacier in Alaska as it calved into the lake below. The following morning, the experienced tour guide led ...

Wednesday, we took a boat ride to the Columbia Glacier near Valdez, Alaska. The clouds broke up long enough to get an incredible view of the ice. We passed icebergs that were up to 50 feet […] ...

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 ...