The wonder of Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park was first designated a national monument a century ago. Even with climate change, Glacier Bay has a surprising story to tell about nature’s resilience.
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| 0:47.8 | Hank Lentfer lives in southeast Alaska, |
| 0:52.8 | in a cabin by a stream just on the edge of Glacier Bay. |
| 0:57.1 | It's a truly special place for Hank to do the job he loves. |
| 1:00.2 | He's a professional sound recordist. |
| 1:21.6 | In a place like Glacier Bay, if you take anybody and just drop them on a beach with a tent and a camp stove one of the first things they're going to notice is oh my god this place is so quiet |
| 1:32.2 | and one of the next things they're going to notice is like nope it's not quiet it's just filled with sound and so often the most interesting sounds are the smaller ones, just the creeks and the pops. |
| 1:49.9 | And when the face of the glacier calves, there's so much going on. |
| 1:59.6 | They're vertical, they're unstable. |
| 2:02.6 | It's a conveyor belt, right? |
| 2:04.6 | They're just continually moving. |
| 2:06.6 | And then breaking away into the ocean. |
| 2:14.6 | And you can boat up to any of these bergs, some of them the size of a house, some of them the size of a suitcase. |
| 2:26.3 | A lot of them are making this popping, bubbling sound, and they're actively melting in the ocean and they're full of |
| 2:40.9 | air bubbles and those air bubbles pop and you know come to the surface and pop at the surface of the ocean. |
| 2:53.6 | And that air was trapped by a snowstorm hundreds of years ago, high in the ice field, |
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