Mourning Ice

More than ten years ago now, it’s hard to believe but it really has been that long, we splurged on an Alaska cruise. One of our ‘land excursions’ was to the Mendenhall Glacier. Still huge. Still impressive. Still imposing.

A fraction of the size that it was.

This is what we saw:

And then there’s this image — comparing the glacier as it looked back in what must have been the dawn of…