Kluane National Park is on the Canadian side of the St. Elias Mountain Range, which includes Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. It is the home to Mt. Logan, the highest point in Canada, which sits in the extreme Southwest corner of the Yukon.
I had the pleasure of having two aerial photography sessions over the ice fields of Kluane National Park in the Yukon back in June. One in a helicopter and the other the next day in a fixed-wing airplane. It was one of the best photography experiences I've had in my years of traveling.
I'll let the photos speak for themselves:
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Gary Arndt has been traveling and writing around the world since March 2007. He is the author of the popular travel blog Everything Everywhere.