Crossing the Second Largest Non-Polar Icefield » Explorersweb

Crossing the Second Largest Non-Polar Icefield » Explorersweb

Next week, Americans Kyle Sprenger, 23, and Jacob Myers, 27, will travel to southeastern Alaska to ski 430km across the Bagley Icefield, often cited as the second-largest icefield outside the polar regions. The two aspiring guides will fly from the small settlement of McCarthy to a remote landing strip near the Tana Glacier in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park. They will start skiing straight from the flight onto the glacier’s western tongue. "Fr…