Tom Kizzia

KIZZIA WAS A REPORTER FOR THE ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS FOR 25 YEARS. HE IS THE AUTHOR OF SEVERAL BOOKS ABOUT ALASKA, MOST RECENTLY, THE GHOST-TOWN HISTORY “COLD MOUNTAIN PATH”

A cruise liner at Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Pre-pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people visited Alaska on cruise ships.
LIFE & CULTURE

End-times tourism in the land of glaciers

I gazed from the cruise ship’s railing with a contemporary Alaskan’s gloom