First Ascent of the Northeast Ridge of Mt. Vancouver in 1975
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Approaching the snout of the glacier. At the end of the ice, the water appears from underneith the north side of the glacier and becomes the Slims River which flows to Kluane lake and eventually to the Yukon River. On the south side, it becomes the Kaskawulsh River which flows to the Alsek River and directly to the Pacific Ocean. Long after this trip, a geological event happened and the Kaskawulsh River captured the full flow from the Kaskawulsh Glacier. The Slims river basically dried up.