Price Glacier is in
North Cascades National Park
North Cascades National Park is a List of national parks of the United States, national park of the United States in Washington (state), Washington. At more than , it is the largest of the three National Park Service units that comprise the No ...
in the U.S. state of
Washington
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, on the northeast slopes of
Mount Shuksan, below the subpeak known as
Nooksack Tower.
Price Glacier descends from and is the steepest and most heavily
crevasse
A crevasse is a deep crack that forms in a glacier or ice sheet. Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the shear stress generated when two semi-rigid pieces above a plastic substrate have different rate ...
ed glacier on Mount Shuksan.
iceberg
An iceberg is a piece of fresh water ice more than long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. Smaller chunks of floating glacially derived ice are called "growlers" or "bergy bits". Much of an i ...
s into Price Lake.
Price Glacier was named for mountaineer William M. Price, who climbed Mount Shuksan in 1906 and 1915.
See also
*List of glaciers in the United States
Glaciers are located in ten states, with the vast majority in Alaska. The southernmost named glacier is the Lilliput Glacier in Tulare County, California, Tulare County, east of the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of California.
Apa ...
References
Glaciers of the North Cascades
Glaciers of Whatcom County, Washington
Glaciers of Washington (state)
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