glacier

Less than a month after a grizzly bear was shot and killed in Denali National Park, Glacier National Park has revised their Bear Management Plan and Bear Management Guidelines.
In attempt to create stronger preventative measures and better educate the public regarding bear/human contact, park officials hope that the changes… Read the rest

This week’s Friday Photo winner is Stacey Murray for this amazing shot of a kayaker negotiating ice burgs in the Weddell Sea on the Peninsula of Antarctica. Stacey submitted her photo from Palmer Station, Antarctica. We’re glad to see we have some fans at the end of the earth! … Read the rest
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Award-winning National Geographic Young Explorer, Global iWend Ambassador and kayaker extraordinaire Andy Maser traveled to South America with his Epicocity Project partners to run some rapids and learn more about what’s happening to Bolivia’s tropical glaciers.
In addition to writing a killer feature story about his trip for the newest… Read the rest

As the end of the year approaches, it’s time to dream about where you’ll be exploring in 2010 – there have been lots of changes in travelling trends over the past few years. Instead of popular spots like Italy and Thailand, travelers these days are searching for something different, something… Read the rest

Thomas Miklautsch wind surfing in front of the Perito Moreno glacier … Read the restin the Los Glaciares National Park in the south west of Santa Cruz province, Argentina.

Surfing is on thing, surfing on a wave created by a receding glacier is quite another. The Glacier Project follows big wave surfers Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala as they take on some of the wildest waves of Alaska, and the results are awe-striking the say the least.
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Around the world, glaciers are in danger from the effects of global warming; many of them are shrinking, and they’re shrinking rapidly. In Bolivia, the Chacaltaya Glacier melted away six years earlier than predicted, leaving the local slopes north of La Paz with a stretch of snow no bigger than… Read the rest

Due to global warming causing glacial melt in the Alps, Italy and Switzerland are being forced to redraw their national border, a line that has remained unchanged since 1861, when Italy became a unified state.
The border in the Alps was originally charted along geographical points of reference such as… Read the rest

If you are heading out on the open sea this year then be sure to keep a weathered eye peeled for one of the 90 rubber ducks NASA purposely lost at sea.
According to the Guardian,

The US space agency has yet to find any trace of 90 bathtub toys … Read the rest

As soon as you cross the Continental Divide, the scenery changes drastically, from dense, hilly forests to open, spacious plains. Only a few small towns are found along the way from the west side of the park to the east, most of them boarded up for the winter months. But… Read the rest

Instead of reading emails and doing office work, I decided to take off for Montana for a week to do some real Wending, starting with a trip to Glacier National Park. Full of visitors in the summertime, in late fall most of the attractions and campgrounds are already closed for… Read the rest

Looking to preserve that perfect snowman for the entire year? Or perhaps you’d like to save an artillery of snowballs to sabatage an enemy in June (a-la’ Calvin and Hobbes vs. Susie Durkins)? Why not follow the lead of several ski resorts in Colorado, including Aspen, which are experimenting with… Read the rest

When it came time to study the frozen innards of Greenland’s fastest-moving glacier, NASA scientists didn’t go to the drawing board. They went to the bathtub.
In order to better understand why glaciers speed up as they move out to sea a U.S. rocket scientist unleashed 90 rubber ducks into… Read the rest

The highest peak in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro’s summit lies at 19,300 feet which is exactly where Cameron Martindell took this photo of the surrounding glaciers. His team’s six day climb up the popular Machame route is well documented in a video on Martindell’s website. Check it out here.
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On Sunday the BBC… Read the rest published a rather scary article regarding new research in West Antarctica where three important glaciers are putting more and more ice into the sea, causing great concern amongst environmental scientists. One of the glaciers in question, the Pine Island Glacier, is 30 kilometers wide and and