Alaska, no doubts, is an amazing place and I have told a lot about it but almost forgotten to mention anything about glaciers. Glaciers of Alaska are incredible, actually, a glacier is a big accumulation of snow, ice, water and rock. They are made because of the temperature, geology and snowfall. Snow becomes ice in glacier, because there are a lot of snow layers, snow gets compressed and finally changes into ice. This process lasts for years and so glacier appears. Glaciers are very important to the Earth, they can change its topography, flood seacoasts, affect human life, take away their settlements, start migration.
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