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| What's it like to flightsee McKinley? |
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If weather permits, you
won't regret taking a
flightseeing tour of Mt.
McKinley. From the air,
nature presents itself on a
scale beyond your wildest
comprehension.
You enter the scene over a
boulder—strewn labyrinth of
treacherous crevasses seven
miles long, a mysterious
jumble of rock and ice
resembling a bomb blast's
aftermath. Gravity rams this
great jumble of earth and ice
into the river country below,
obliterating all in its path.
Soon, your plane is dwarfed
on both sides by a ten—mile
long phalanx of mile—high
towers of black—and—brown
granite. What appear to be
tiny flakes on the wall are
actually ledges wide enough
to park a tractor trailer.
The ice below is 3,700 feet
deep, some of it more than
a thousand years old. Were
it to melt tomorrow, you
would witness a spectacle
twice as awesome as the
Grand Canyon—a gorge a
mile wide and nearly two
miles high.
Exquisite ice formations
loom on the crest of these
walls. You are gazing at
blocks of ice the size of
shopping malls. The sun's
warmth often releases them
into a shower of rock and ice
that ricochets for a vertical
mile before slamming to the
glacier floor.
You are engrossed in mindboggling
scenery—when
suddenly your pilot tells you
to look up. Just ahead, you
see the lofty summit of Mt.
McKinley. Remarkably, North
America's highest peak lies
less than 15 miles from its
deepest gorge. |
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