Alaska Knik Glacier | Historical Documentation 1930/1940

#KnikGlacier #Alaska expedition #mountpalmer #climatechange Exciting images brought back from the Alaska expedition from 1930 till 1940. Today the Knik Glacier is a glacier about 40 km long and eight km wide in the Chugach Mountains in Alaska. This glacier is located 70 km east of Anchorage on the western flank of Mount Marcus Baker. It flows into Lake George and the upper reaches of the Knik River, which flows into the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet Until the 1960s, the Knik Glacier grew in winter to the flank of Mount Palmer and dammed Lake George. Due to increasing water pressure and higher temperatures, a glacier run occurred every summer, causing a flood in the Knik River.