The eerie blue of the glaciers is most breathtaking ... otters and other marine and coastal wildlife. Alaska is one of the few places to explore the glacial ice by dog sled, the same way Native ...

An Alaska cruise is the voyage of a lifetime. In Glacier Bay National Park, waters as blue as they are cold extend to striated cliffs and corrugated ice fields shaped by the inexorable flow of ...

You can even get up close and personal with glaciers in national parks like Alaska's Glacier ... dig a walkable ice cave, or ice "grotto," directly into the glacier's deep blue ice.

Many also embark on guided treks, donning crampons and helmets to explore the glacier’s rolling terrain and peer into centuries-old, deep blue crevasses. A Connecticut second grader is being ...