The Great Gorge of Ruth
As we entered the great gorge of Ruth's Glacier, the world's deepest gorge, we felt so small and insignificant. The surrounding walls soar 4,000 to 5,000 ft. above on all sides. The ice is 3,700 feet deep, and some of it is more than a thousand years old. If the ice would melt tomorrow, you would witness a spectacle twice as awesome as the Grand Canyon - a gorge a mile wide and nearly two miles high. We stared in awe at mile high spires of sheer granite with names such as Moose's Tooth and Bear Tooth. What an amazing place!
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