Two big things have happened since John Neary arrived in Alaska's
rainy capital city 33 years ago: Juneau's most famous attraction, the
Mendenhall Glacier, has receded by more than a mile; and the number of
visitors to the glacier has nearly tripled, to 450,000 a year. “On
Monday afternoons, the busses are lined up 30 deep,” Neary says. “The
place is not suited to the volume of traffic it's receiving.”
The surge can largely be explained by an increase in Alaskan tourism
over the last few decades. But visitors have more than doubled in the
past 16 years alone, and at least part of that can be attributed to
“last chance tourism,” or the flow of people rushing to see at-risk
places before they're destroyed by climate change....
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