All photos in this post were taken within a few seconds of each other as we flew over the “bottom end” of the Taku Glacier.
Circa 15 minutes later we would be back in Juneau, Alaska’s capital city.
From there, no road will take you out into “wilderness”.
However, by floatplane, an incredible array of “pristine” locations are less than 60 minutes distant – some, less than 30 minutes away from downtown Juneau.
Between 2010 and 2020 the Juneau Icefield – source of all glaciers pictured in the Alaskan part of this series – was melting at an average rate of 50,000 gallons per second.
According to a Smithsonian Magazine article, which you can read in full, here:
Its snow-covered area is shrinking 4.6 times faster than it was prior to the 1980s, and between 2010 and 2020, it lost roughly 1.4 cubic miles of ice per year
