It flows from an eponymous ice field formed on the mountains that border Resurrection Bay.
Perito Moreno, PN Los Glaciares, Patagonia Argentina
One of the few glaciers on the face of the Earth that preserves its renewal cycle intact. It flows against a shore of Lake Argentino.
Grey, PN Torres del Paine, Chile
Located next to Chile's most iconic mountains, the Gray glacier is one of the many arms of the gigantic ice field in southern Patagonia.
Columbia, Prince William Sound, Alaska
One of the largest glaciers in Alaska, it releases such a quantity of fragments that it makes approaching it practically impossible.
Meares, Prince William Sound, Alaska
A neighbor from Columbia. It flows from the same Chugach mountains but is much smaller and usually has an accessible ablation front.
Valdez Glacier, Valdez, Alaska
During the gold rush, miners used it to cross the Chugach Mountains and reach the Klondike. Releases huge icebergs (pictured).
Franz Josef, PN Westland, New Zealand
It flows from the heights of the Southern Alps. It is about 12km long and, despite being in the advancing phase, is 19km short of the Tasman Sea.
Ruth, PN Denali, Alaska
One of several glaciers around Mount McKInley, the highest mountain in North America at 6.168 meters in altitude.
Mendenhall, Juneau, Alaska
Explorers descend into an ice cave on the Mendenhall Glacier.
Breiðamerkurjökull, PN Vatnajökull, Iceland
An arm of Europe's largest glacier, the Vatnajkull. Releases countless icebergs and debris in the Jokulsárlón lagoon.
Tasman, PN Aoraki/Mt Cook, New Zealand
It is the longest glacier in New Zealand at about 4km. In the image, the icy water released from its front enters Lake Pukaki.
White Piedras, PN Los Glaciares, Argentina
It extends from the base of Mount Fitz Roy and supplies the Torre Lagoon, one of several in the northern sector of PN Los Glaciares.
They form at high latitudes and/or altitudes. In Alaska or New Zealand, Argentina or Chile, rivers of ice are always stunning visions of an Earth as frigid as it is inhospitable.
Text: Marco C. Pereira
Images: Marco C. Pereira-Sara Wong
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