The icy expanse of Hubbard Glacier. (Photo
courtesy of the Alaska Division of Tourism)

When you're on safari in Africa, the "money shot" comes when the camera-toting tourists actually witness a "kill" in the wild. In Alaska, the money shot is a tad less violent: it comes when camera-toting tourists witness the "calving" of ice off a glacier, that moment when a huge chunk breaks away and crashes into the sea. Hubbard Glacier may well be your best bet to get this picture. This is the fastest moving and longest tidewater glacier in the continent, a lumbering river of ice flowing relentlessly into Disenchantment Bay, surrounded by vast, seemingly uninhabitable mountain scenery.

 



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