Photos from my retro photo album titled: Alaska, May 2013
Mendenhall Glacier started retreating in the mid-1700s following a period of glaciation that began 3,000 years ago. But in recent decades, Alaska has been warming twice as fast as the rest of the United States, helping to push the region’s glaciers into an especially steep decline. The Juneau Icefield, of which Mendenhall Glacier is a part, lost 63 out of 1,050 small glaciers inventoried between 2005 and 2019. During that same period, the icefield lost 10 percent of its glacier area. source.
My husband and I went on an Alaskan cruise in 2013. We wanted to see the glacier sooner rather than later before it became too late.
I write about this Alaska trip in my book Time Traveled. (e-book or paperback).
Krista Marson 