The City of Valdez says an ice climber died after falling at Valdez glacier Tuesday. Valdez Dispatch got a call around 4:15 p.m. of an injured woman found six miles from the face of the glacier.The Valdez Fire Department backcountry search and rescue team deployed two ground search teams and one airborne search team, the city said.When the airborne team got to the scene, they found 23-year-old Kalley Ann Rittman dead.
The bodies of three kayakers were found in the frigid waters of a glacial lake in Alaska, officials said.
What’s there now is certainly notable, but try looking at the Valdez Glacier with the perspective of how small it has become.
Observe & follow posted danger signs. For your safety, keep away from all floating ice & the face of the glacier.
At that time, this part of the Chugach was buried under more than 2,000 feet of ice.
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For immediate release: 03.18.2020, 5:00pm The City of Valdez says an ice climber died after falling at Valdez glacier Tuesday. The Valdez Glacier holds historical significance for this Prince William Sound community. Valdez Glacier experienced an extreme calving and separation event July 7-8. For your safety, keep away from all floating ice & the face of the glacier. Officials in the port town of Valdez say the kayakers were found dead near the toe of Valdez Glacier. City spokeswoman Sheri Pierce says responders recovered the … A … Since the fork had retreated the east edge of Valdez Glacier spills into the valley. Five Alaskans are looking to replace him in November.The State of Alaska will dispute "subsistence-only" federal hunting restrictions in a widely popular caribou and moose hunting area (GMU13. Authorities are investigating the deaths of three tourists from Germany whose bodies were found Tuesday in the water near the toe of Valdez Glacier. About 5 miles back from the terminus on the east side of Valdez Glacier there is a valley with a retreated fork of glacier that drains into the valley. Valdez Glacier experienced an extreme calving and separation event July 7-8.
Those broken chunks of ice, some the size of city buildings dam up the drainage creating a deep lake. "Desert One": Inside the failed 1980 hostage rescue in IranThe prospects for mail-in voting in this fall's electionRobert Trump, brother of the president, has died at 71How to safely return your absentee ballot without USPSPostal Service inspector general investigates changes at post officesThousands of Iowans still without power days after stormBattleground Tracker: Latest polls, state of the race and more5 things to know about CBS News' 2020 Battleground TrackerBiden has edge in North Carolina, race is tight in Georgia — CBS News pollWhy some mail-in ballots are rejected and how to make sure your vote countsWhat happens if the president doesn't accept the election results?Election Day could turn into "Election Week" with rise in mail ballotsGOP confident in Ohio, but Dems think it's within reach Officials in the port city of Valdez say they were found near the toe of Valdez Glacier.The guide said there were two bodies in the water, according to Pierce, adding that two bodies were found floating on the water and the third was on an ice floe.Pierce told the newspaper the kayakers were German tourists – a married couple and a man, all in their sixties.The glacier is calving, or shedding ice, which Pierce said slowed responders in reaching the bodies.She said it's too early to say what might have led to the deaths but foul play isn't suspected at this time. In fact, the ice on this glacier has been more or less retreating for the last 10,000 years. Officials in the port city of Valdez say they were found near the toe of Valdez Glacier.
"If they were knocked out of the boat due to a wake or a calving piece of ice, the water is very cold," Pierce told the Daily News.Be in the know. Rittman is from Madison, Wisconsin, Officials say Rittman's exact cause of death remains under investigation.NEWS RELEASE Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Rolling icebergs & underwater calving pose serious danger. Rolling icebergs & underwater calving pose serious danger. Prospectors flocked to Port Valdez, and an estimated three to-5000 gold-seekers crossed the Valdez Glacier from 1898 to 1899 to reach the Copper Basin. It was the chosen route of Lt. Abercrombie to access interior Alaska in the late 1800s Gold Rush. Observe & follow posted danger signs.
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