Northwest History. Alaska, Glaciers. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: bombs; glacier; Fairbanks; Alaska; Black Rapids Glacier; the Richardson Highway; Otto William Geist; University of Alaska; America; movement; the Big Delta River valley; the coast; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Delta River; Pacific; Two Mile; glaciers
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92211

Bombs Won't Stop Glacier, Says Expert. Bombs Won't Stop Glacier, Says Expert FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Tuesday, Feb. 16.—UP)—Dynamiting of Black Rapids Glacier to prevent its advance on a roadhouse and the Richardson Highway would be as ineffective "as an attack by fireflies," Otto William Geist, recording the glacier's movements for the University of Alaska, said today. "There are not enough bombs or dynamite in America to even make an impression on the main body of the glacier, and if all of them were dropped at once, they would be as ineffective in destroying the colossal mass as an attack by fireflies," Geist said. The glacier continued its slow, steady movement down the Big Delta River valley, 125 miles south of here, threatening to dam the two-mile-wide river, destroy a roadhouse, and block the highway. Interior Alaska's only highway outlet to the coast. Today. the glacier was slightly more than a mile from the house.