On 13th June, 2018, we travelled along the coastline towards the Kenai Peninsula, again dotted with snow covered mountains, lakes, rivers and beaches. After a drive of two and a half hour we arrive at the small fishing town of Seaward named after William Seaward, who was a member of Lincoln cabinet and he was the person who was responsible for purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867.By paying an amount of 7.2 million dollars he was able to get a total land of 1,518,800 kilometers to the United States territory at that time. We then took a trail and reached the Exit glacier, which lay spread, before our eyes majestically. Here too the fact that the glaciers were melting hit us in the eye, for they had put up boards with the years as to the extent and spread of the glacier and we could see how much the glacier had shrunk from 2005 to the present day. While the glacier with its solidified white ice, the light blue coloured rings in ice are a feast to the eye, the fact of climate change and Global warming also hits us. No where else does this fact come out as a stark reality of our times as in Alaska for though I had gone to Gangotri we could not reach the Gangotri glacier for it was inaccessible but here we are able to see the glacier in front of our eyes and some times touch and feel it too.
