The National Park Service and Air National Guard rescued two people from a cliff face in a prohibited area of Kenai Fjords National Park on the Kenai Peninsula on Monday. According to a release from ...

U.S. President Barack Obama hikes with National Park Service staffs to the Exit Glacier at Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska, September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
 By Roberta Rampton ...

The huge Harding Icefield on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula shed some of its mass over the past year and Exit Glacier, which spills out of that 700-square mile icefield, retreated more than in any other ...

It was overcast, dark for midday and a bit foggy, with a cold and steady drizzle coming down on us, atop the icy glacier. That’s when the camera slipped out of my hand — covered by a neoprene glove — ...