Once the flood waters had dissipated under the glacier and out through the fjord, Byrd was seen to return to its normal behaviour.

BBC: Under-ice flood speeds up glacier

"While probing through the debris roughly 30 meters below the glacier surface, Chenoweth found a broken rope" matching the Japanese team's rope.

CNN: Avalanche recovery efforts suspended on Mount McKinley

As we purl through the ice-strewn waters around the glacier, I find myself thinking not of the prospectors who arrived here from Seattle, but of the 19th-century railway baron, EH Harriman of the Union Pacific Railroad.

BBC: Journey into the Alaskan wild

The objectives of the Workshop were to examine the opportunity and means of establishing an Andean Glacier monitoring Network (A-GMN) through international co-operation between research workers and institutions, national agencies and international organisations and programs.

UNESCO: Valdivia, Chile, 2003

Through the structure's windows, we could see the glacier.

WSJ: Man Versus the Volcano

Finally, Tolkien continued across the 2, 165m Grimsel Pass and through upper Valais to the village of Brig, before crossing the Aletsch glacier, the largest in the Alps, into the popular mountain resort of Zermatt.

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