Ruth Glacier

The Ruth Glacier is a glacier in the Alaska Range in Alaska. It is 50 km long and is located in Denali National Park.

The " Great Gorge ", an approximately two- mile-wide gorge, where scarce the glacier five kilometers from the summit of Mount McKinley starts away, overcomes to 16 kilometers an altitude difference of 600 m. The snow the southeast side of the mountain is forced through this canyon and travels at a speed of one meter per day downhill.

At the edges of the gorge rise up to 1500 m high granite cliffs above the ice. Studies of the University of Alaska were 1983 ice thickness of up to 1150 m, which together with the adjacent rock walls a deeper abyss than it is to see the Grand Canyon. The height difference between the Mount Dickey at the edge of the glacier and the valley floor below the ice is more than 2400 m.

Was named the Ruth Glacier in 1903 by Frederick Cook, an American explorer, polar explorer and physician, after his daughter.