| Alaska, 1979 | |
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"Yesterday and this morning were sightseeing days. We went along the Fairweather Range near shore and saw La Perouse Glacier, the only tidewater glacier on the open coast in all the Pacific."
La Perouse Glacier is the outlet for an upland icefield in the heart of the Fairweather Range. Its two main feeder ice streams pour slowly down in the background, and in the left foreground is a high moraine, now forested, that was built there during an earlier, colder time. This glacier barely reaches the Pacific surf. Global warming may cause more snow and make the glacier advance, or it may melt it instead.
