If you do want to explore the glacier's surface, or are simply looking for an excellent tour, recent visitors suggested taking an Ice Explorer tour onto the Athabasca Glacier. Past travelers raved ...

It's a bit of a drive from Banff Town (about two hours) to the Columbia Icefield Discovery Centre across from the foot of the Athabasca ... the glacier where you’ll transfer to an Ice Explorer ...

With glaciers disappearing at an alarming rate, 2025 has been named the Year of International Glacier Preservation. Here's ...

Athabasca Glacier is one of the most accessible in North America. You can walk right up to it, though signs show how much it has retreated over the years. Tourists hop on massive all-terrain ice ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Friday marks the first-ever World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations ...

This is what produces the ice quakes.” This discovery shows that ice streams move with what Fichtner calls a “stick-slip” motion rather than always flowing smoothly like viscous honey. Glacier ice ...

Located in the Rocky Mountains, the Athabasca glacier recedes approximately five metres every year. It is expected to disappear entirely by 2100. Traditionally, tours shuttled guests onto the ice ...

Glaciers are now 9,000 billion tonnes lighter than when records began in 1975, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS). “This is equivalent to a huge ice block the size of ...