Glacier At Work. But hardly working fast enough to blur the photographer’s exposure (it recedes at a rate of about a dozen feet a year). It’s the Lyell Glacier in Yosemite National Park, a mile long and 300 feet deep.
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Glacier At Work. But hardly working fast enough to blur the photographer’s exposure (it recedes at a rate of about a dozen feet a year). It’s the Lyell Glacier in Yosemite National Park, a mile long and 300 feet deep.

Associated Press · [ca. October 1938]

CC0 — Public Domain
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