Esther's photos with the keyword: flightseeing

"At the upper ends of Denali’s glaciers are steep-walled semicircular basins called cirques. Cirques form from freeze-thaw cycles of meltwater in the rocks above the glacier, and by glacial erosion and mass wasting occurring under the glacier. As cirques on the opposite sides of a ridge are cut deeper into the divide, they form a narrow, sharp, serrated ridge called an arête. As the arête wears away from glacial ice breaking it down, the low point between cirques is called a col (or if it is large, a pass). Cols are saddle-shaped depressions in the ridge between cirques. A spire-like sharp peak, called a horn, is formed when cirques cut back into a mountaintop from three or four sides." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali_National_Park_and_Preserve Talkeetna Air Taxi - Denali Flight and Glacier Landing AIMG 5554

Talkeetna Air Taxi - Denali Flight and Glacier Landing AIMG 5541

Talkeetna Air Taxi - Denali Flight and Glacier Landing AIMG 5535

I wanted to go on a flightseeing trip of Denali when I was in Alaska. I figured that it would be very unlikely since I was booking it months in advance and Denali was covered in clouds about 70 percent of the time. I got lucky and the day that I had to visit was beautiful. We used Talkeetna Air Taxi for the trip. This is one of their planes. The skis are lowered when it is in the air so that it can land on the glacier. AIMG 5518