Thousands of visitors touch a glacier for the first time when they step off a customized Ice Explorer vehicle onto this 3.7-mile long field of ice and snow. The Sunwapta Valley yawns almost 1,000 ...

U-shaped glacially carved Veneon Valley in the Western Alps. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

At the foot of the mountains of Grand Teton National Park, this crystal-clear expanse of water, formed by glaciers over ... and glacial valleys. This environment, carved by the effect of glacial ...

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the head of a remote fjord in southern Chile, a determined Norwegian named Samsing settled down in 1925 to a life ...

Thanks to the glaciers that give Glacier National Park its name, this Montana landscape has been carved out by the movements ... ice ages collects in the valleys, creating still, cold lakes ...