Athabasca Glacier Archives - Calgary Guardian https://calgaryguardian.com/tag/athabasca-glacier/ Arts, Culture and Lifestyle from Calgary Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:05:33 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://calgaryguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cropped-CalgaryGuardian_Logo_FaviconApp-32x32.jpg Athabasca Glacier Archives - Calgary Guardian https://calgaryguardian.com/tag/athabasca-glacier/ 32 32 Wild Jobs: Glacier Guide https://calgaryguardian.com/wild-jobs-glacier-guide/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:05:33 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=25117 “A new world was spread at our feet: to the westward stretched a vast ice-field probably never before seen by the human eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, unnamed and unclimbed peaks.”       [...]

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]]> Historic Photos of Glaciers from the Canadian Rockies https://calgaryguardian.com/historic-glacier-photos/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:00:13 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=6157 At their most basic, glaciers are concentrations of fallen snow that are compressed over many years into large masses of ice. Glaciers form when more snow accumulates in an area than can melt in a [...]

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]]> Ancient Ice https://calgaryguardian.com/ancient-ice/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:05:41 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=2431 “The view that lay before us in the evening light was one that does not often fall to the lot of modern mountaineers. A new world was spread at our feet: to the westward stretched [...]

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