{"id":30784,"date":"2025-08-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=30784"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:18:33","slug":"bering-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=30784","title":{"rendered":"Bering Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is big. Really, truly big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The glacier looked to be miles wide and flowed from deep in the mountians to where it nearly reached the sea.  My view from the aircraft window allowed a perfect view on a beautiful sunny day. Unlike previous times I had passed this way no clouds obscured the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took a quick look at the map after the flight to identify the glacier I had seen and photographed&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bering_Glacier\">Bearing Glacier, the largest glacier in North America<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The glacier starts at an icefield in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Elias_Mountains\">St Elias Range<\/a>, a stunningly rugged mountain range that abruptly rises from sea level to heights near 20,000ft in places.  From there a five mile wide river of ice decends over 50 miles to the coastal plain, ending in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vitus_Lake\">Vitus Lake<\/a> dotted with icebergs broken from the glacier&#8217;s terminal face.  Seal River, a short, two mile long river then drains glacial meltwater into the Gulf of Alaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers fail to capture the sheer grandeur of the that river of ice.  While the view from 30,000ft was impressive, I wonder what it would be like to stand in the middle of that expanse on such a beautiful day. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=30759\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CL90-96-25217-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Bering Glacier seen from the west\" class=\"wp-image-30759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CL90-96-25217-DC.jpg 900w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CL90-96-25217-DC-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bering Glacier seen from the west<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is big. Really, truly big. The glacier looked to be miles wide and flowed from deep in the mountians to where it nearly reached the sea. My view from the aircraft window allowed a perfect view on a beautiful sunny day. Unlike previous times I had passed this way no clouds obscured the scene. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=30784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bering Glacier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402],"tags":[2107,2963,1289,520,2807],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CL90-96-25217-DC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30889,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30784\/revisions\/30889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}