Top of Blue Glacier - Crevasse

I guess I am certifiably old now. I look back at this picture from my youth

( about 50 years ago) and wonder that I had the stamina to climb to such

heights and the foolishness to put myself in such a dangerous location.

But the memories make it worth while to have done so.

Nice composition. What created those crevices? I know I cannot climb that now but not sure I was in good enough shape to do that in my youth either LoL

stunning! Timeless picture!

Reply to Dale,

They are called "crevasses," not "crevices." When the snow accumulates on a slope and gradually compresses into ice, forming a glacier, the slow slipping of the total mass downhill creates stresses in the glacial ice and wedge shaped openings form to release the stress.  You can think of the glacier as a very slow motion water fall but the water is frozen.  The falling glacier moves fastest in the middle of the span and more slowly at the edges where the friction of rock surfaces impede the motion.

I once participated in another part of the Blue Glacier where we placed bamboo poles with flags to form a perfect line at right angles to the glacier flow.  The next day and the third day after we could see the middle of the flag line forming a bow in the middle where the ice was flowing fastest.  Unfortunately the roll of film that had those pictures was lost when I lost my footing and had to do a self arrest with my ice ax.  I learned not to put exposed film in an unzippered jacket pocket.