Check out those crevasses! Crevasses are cracks in a glacier, created either from the glacier’s movement stretching and breaking the ice, or from faster moving ice crunching into slower moving ice. Either way, a crevasse is evidence that a glacier is moving!
__________ NPS Photo of the Emmons Glacier from Burroughs Mountain, 9/3/18. Description: A person stands silhouetted in front of a large glacier broken by numerous crevasses. ~kl







