6 articles tagged with glacier hiking
At 11,332 feet, Jungfraujoch bills itself as the Top of Europe, and frankly, the marketing isn't far off. I've taken my kids to some pretty extreme environments—Arctic tundra at minus-forty, Patagonian wind storms that bent tent poles—but watching their faces...
Five days ago, I was standing at 4,680 meters on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, my lungs burning and my weathered face pelted by wind, thinking: *This beats the hell out of sitting in a lecture hall back in Cork.* The...
There's something profoundly humbling about standing inside a glacier that's been forming for thousands of years. As both a midwife and avid scientific explorer, I've witnessed many natural wonders, but nothing quite compares to the ethereal blue chambers of Iceland's...
Twenty years in corporate boardrooms never prepared me for the raw magnificence of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. After guiding countless executives through career transformations, I've found that nothing resets the professional compass quite like immersing oneself in this untamed wilderness. This...
There's something profoundly humbling about standing at the edge of Earth's most dramatic geological displays. The ground beneath your feet tells stories spanning millions of years—tales of fire and ice locked in an eternal dance. Having spent my childhood in...
Standing at the edge of Vatnajökull, Europe's largest glacier, I felt that familiar tension between awe and insignificance that only nature's grandest spectacles can evoke. The crystalline blue ice stretched before me like a frozen ocean, sculpted over millennia into...
