double exposure glacier photographs

BLACKSTONE BAY

HENEY GLACIER

VALDEZ GLACIER

HUGH MILLER GLACIER

BLACKSTONE BAY

Warmer winters - 10 degrees F warmer now than in 1937 - mean more moisture in the air and more snow. But the glaciers are melting faster than the snow is falling.

The feet of all five glaciers touch Blackstone Bay. Crevasses form as the glaciers move over uneven ground.

All the glaciers that once lapped at Blackstone Bay have retreated, narrowed where they met the bay, or both. Marquette and Lawrence Glaciers have thinned significantly.

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