Glowing Glacier

As I was flying over this ice field in the Chugach Mountains late one evening, I found this lonely peak illuminated with alpenglow cast by the setting sun. Known as nunatuks—an Inuit word born from Greenland’s massive ice sheets—these often startling prominences stand over remote basins of ice like sentinels, often the high spot of a ridge dividing one glacier system from another. For a few fleeting minutes, this particular feature captured the fading day like a beacon, while magic light kissed the ice below and beyond.