Worthington Glacier Find this impressive glacier hugging a valley alongside Thompson Pass, 28 miles east of Valdez. This point is one of the snowiest in the state, recording as much as 80 feet in ...

To the east, near the city of Valdez, a 5-year-old boy hiking with his family on Worthington Glacier lost his life after being struck by a loose rock. In July 2022, ...

Lee Hunt, the executive director of the Valdez Adventure Alliance, which operates the park containing Worthington Glacier, says about 100,000 unique visitors make their way to the site every year.

W e stood shivering before Worthington Glacier, bundled into every piece of warm clothing we had packed — four women of a certain age, camping through Alaska, in an RV, for 2½ weeks.

The vast natural beauty of Alaska exists on a timeless scale – soaring peaks, sculpted valleys, massive ice fields built up over eons. At their feet, all of recorded history is but a blink of an ...

VALDEZ -- Members of the Valdez Fire Department last weekend rescued a 16-year-old tourist from Connecticut who fell into a crevasse near the top of Worthington Glacier.

To the east, near the city of Valdez, a 5-year-old boy hiking with his family on Worthington Glacier lost his life after being struck by a loose rock. In July 2022, ...

The first two bodies were clinging to a canoe, a third was around 150 feet away. They were agonizingly close to the glacier’s edge, and to safety, but had been trapped by ice, slush and debris ...