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 ...

Located in the Rocky Mountains, the Athabasca glacier recedes approximately 5 metres every year and is expected to disappear entirely by 2100. Traditionally, tours shuttled guests onto the ice on ...

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 ...

Debra Smith Covering 89 square miles on the northern edge of Banff National Park, the Columbia Icefield is the largest body of ice in the ... the foot of the Athabasca Glacier, but you'll quickly ...

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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 ...

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 ...

While there are no definitive studies showing significant changes in Perito Moreno, experienced guides like Pacheco report a visible decline in the glacier's ice. The glacier’s famous ice dam ...

EL CALAFATE, Argentina (AP) — A creak, a thunderous roar, and then the plunge: Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier calves several times a day, as hundreds of visitors strain to see which side it ...