Ice & Glaciers · Field Notes

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Aoraki-Mackenzie

Aoraki / Mount Cook · Canterbury, New Zealand 5 sites

The highest mountain in New Zealand is built from the floor of an ocean that closed hundreds of millions of years ago.
Also seen through Night Sky
Banff

Lake Louise · Alberta, Canada 9 sites

Stand at the edge of Lake Louise and the first thing you notice is the color — a turquoise too bright to look natural.
Also seen through Rivers & Canyons
Chamonix

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc · Haute-Savoie, France 5 sites

Chamonix is a valley with a glacier's handwriting still visible in every direction.
Cordillera Blanca

Cordillera Blanca · Áncash, Peru 8 sites

Every peak in this park wears the same signature: a cap of ice, however far it has shrunk back this year.
Denali

Denali Park Road · Alaska, USA 6 sites

Stand anywhere in the low country here and look up.
Franz Josef Glacier

Franz Josef Glacier · West Coast, New Zealand 7 sites

Most glaciers keep to bare rock and thin air, retreating higher as the world warms.
Glacier

Logan Pass · Montana, USA 6 sites

The rock in these peaks began as mud.
Glacier Bay

Bartlett Cove · Alaska, USA 5 sites

Stand at the water in Bartlett Cove and look down the bay: you are looking along a valley a glacier cut, not a river carved.
Also seen through Marine
Grossglockner

Grossglockner · Carinthia, Austria 7 sites

From below, Grossglockner doesn't read as a dome or a ridge — it reads as a blade, narrowed to a point where several faces meet at once.
Jasper

Municipality of Jasper · Alberta, Canada 5 sites

Jasper is a place to read ice by what is missing.
Also seen through Night Sky
Jostedalsbreen

Jostedalsbreen · Vestland, Norway 7 sites

Say "Jostedalsbreen" to someone who has been here and they may answer with a different name entirely — Briksdalsbreen, Nigardsbreen, Bøyabreen — becau…
Jotunheimen

Jotunheimen · Innlandet, Norway 8 sites

Look at Jotunheimen's skyline and you see teeth: knife-edge ridges, pyramid summits, bowl-shaped hollows scooped into mountainsides as if a spoon had…
Jungfrau-Aletsch

Grindelwald · Bernese Alps, Switzerland 5 sites

Jungfrau-Aletsch is a landscape where the glacier remains the main verb.
Kenai Fjords

Seward · Alaska, USA 5 sites

Stand at the head of Resurrection Bay and the water in front of you is not a bay in the ordinary sense.
Kings Canyon

Cedar Grove Visitor Center · California, USA 5 sites

Walk to the middle of Zumwalt Meadow and look up.
Also seen through Rivers & Canyons
Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya · Central Highlands, Kenya 8 sites

Mount Kenya sits close enough to the equator that its lower forests never see a frost, yet its summit ridge was shaped by ice.
Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier National Park · Washington, USA 8 sites

Mount Rainier is a volcano, but it is the ice, not the fire, that shapes almost everything you will see.
Also seen through Volcanic
Perito Moreno

Municipio de El Calafate · Santa Cruz, Argentina 5 sites

Perito Moreno is ice made visible at its front edge.
Sagarmatha

Sagarmatha · Koshi, Nepal 7 sites

Stand almost anywhere in Sagarmatha and you are standing on ground the ice made, is still making, or has only just finished making.
The Eastern Sierra

Owens Valley · California, USA 9 sites

Owens Valley is the deepest valley in the country.
Also seen through Desert & Deep Time
The North Cascades

Diablo Lake · Washington, USA 6 sites

The water is the wrong color for water.
Also seen through Rivers & Canyons
The Tatras

The Tatras · Lesser Poland, Poland 8 sites

Climb any ridge in the Tatras and the map starts speaking a plain, physical language.
Torres del Paine

Torres del Paine · Magallanes, Chile 8 sites

Stand at the shore of Lago Grey and you're not looking at a finished landscape — you're watching one still being made.
Vatnajökull

Skaftafell · Iceland 5 sites

The glacier you never quite see made everything you can.
Also seen through Volcanic
Yosemite

Yosemite Valley · California, USA 9 sites

Stand on the valley floor and look up.
Also seen through Rivers & Canyons