Challenger Glacier is in
North Cascades National Park
North Cascades National Park is an American national park in the state of Washington. At more than , it is the largest of the three National Park Service units that comprise the North Cascades National Park Complex. North Cascades National Par ...
in the U.S. state of
Washington
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and is on the north slopes of
Mount Challenger
Mount Challenger is a mountain on East Falkland, Falkland Islands.Strange, Ian (1983) ''The Falkland Islands'' It is south of Mount Kent. The area saw some action during the Falklands War, and some of it is still mined. The Murrell River rises ...
. Challenger Glacier descends from .
Over wide, Challenger Glacier descends along a wide terminus with heavy
crevass
A crevasse is a deep crack, that forms in a glacier or ice sheet that can be a few inches across to over 40 feet. Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the shear stress generated when two semi-rigid pie ...
ing and numerous icefalls, with a tongue of the glacier in the north descending to a
proglacial lake
In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ...
. The ascent up Challenger Glacier is one of the most common routes to the summit of Mount Challenger.
See also
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List of glaciers in the United States
This is a list of glaciers existing in the United States, currently or in recent centuries. These glaciers are located in nine states, all in the Rocky Mountains or farther west. The southernmost named glacier among them is the Lilliput Glacier ...
References
Glaciers of the North Cascades
Glaciers of Whatcom County, Washington
Glaciers of Washington (state)
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