At sun up we were steaming into Yakutat
Bay - the grand mass of the St Elias range
standing out clear and bold
Not a cloud - the great white range
appeared to rest on the dark waters of
the bay - the bright blue sky above. It
was a sight seldom witnessed - the
mountain mass for fifty miles along
the coast is 10000 feet high - the
peaks rise to 18,000 and more -
the Malaspina glacier, spreading
its front 60 miles along the coast
is with its feeding fileds larger
than Switzerland with all its glaciers!
