View of Mount Sanford in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve is the largest national park in the United States. Here, you can camp on Root Glacier, visit ...
On December 6, 2025, the St. Elias mountain range was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Canadian Yukon/ Alaska border.
At 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias is the largest national park in the United States and covers roughly the same area as the next two biggest national parks combined (Denali and Gates of the ...
Emily Pennington is a columnist and longtime Outside contributor. For her 63 Parks column, she visited every U.S. national park. 62 Parks Traveler started with a simple goal: to visit every U.S.
The St. Elias mountain range crossing Yukon, British Columbia, and Alaska is the highest coastal mountain range on Earth, and their ice cover is six times larger than the ice fields of the Canadian ...
Click here for a high resolution photograph. Blacksburg, Va. -- Across the world, rivers wash mountains into the sea. In the beautiful and rugged mountains of southeast Alaska, glaciers grind ...
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The climate of high midlatitude mountains appears to be warming faster than the global average, but evidence for such elevation-dependent warming (EDW) at higher latitudes is presently scarce. Here, ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — John Griber was inching his way down a 45-degree ice face on Mount St. Elias, choosing his route to avoid almost certain death if he fell, when he heard the swishing. About 40 feet ...
Ground-breaking new research has shown that erosion caused by glaciation during ice ages can, in the right circumstances, wear down mountains faster than plate tectonics can build them. The ...
Overnighting on a glacier is not your average camping trip—then again, Wrangell-St. Elias is not your average national park. That’s a fact I learned quickly on my June 2024 visit. I traveled to ...