Disappearing frontier: Alaska's glaciers retreating at record pace

WATCH: Alaskan glaciers are melting at record or near-record levels as 2019 is likely to be the state’s hottest year on record

ANCHORAGE - Alaska will soon close a year that is shaping up as its hottest on record, with glaciers in the “Frontier State” melting at record or near-record levels, pouring waters into rising global seas, scientists said after taking fall measurements.

Melt went all the way up to the summit, said Sass, one of the experts who travel to benchmark glaciers to take measurements in the fall. “It’s almost like you popped it and it started to deflate,” said Nate Lewis, a Seward-based wilderness guide who takes travelers into the new lake that has formed at the foot of the shrinking glacier.

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