Western part of waterfall scar 120m high and 5km wide created by giant floods when Lake Missoula's ice dam was breached at end of Ice Age, Dry Falls, Grand Coulee, Washington state, United States of America, North America

Adult female polar bear (Ursus maritimus) yawning with mouth open on multi-year ice floes in Franz Josef Land, Russia, Eurasia

Aerial photography of an esker, a sandy ridge formed by subglacial deposits of sediment in the last Ice Age, in Manitoba, Canada, North America

Aerial view of lakes and an esker, a ridge formed by sediment deposited during the last Ice Age, in northern Manitoba, Canada, North America

Aerial of the Geissenkloesterle, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe

Aerial of the Geissenkloesterle, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe

Aerial of the Geissenkloesterle, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe

Mammoth skeleton from the Pleistocene Ice Age at the Nevada State Museum, Carson City, Nevada, United States of America, North America

Ice encased leaf (Sedum sp.), Angus, Scotland, UK

The parallel roads of Glen Roy caused by an ice dammed lake during the last Ice Age that left rings around the glen indicating the lake levels, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

School drawings in Gojahaven, an Inuit settlement in the far north of Canada.

Red lichen on a rock, Fox Glacier, Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania

View of Franz Joseph Glacier, Terminal face of Glacier, Southern Alps, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania

Ice cave, detail of Fox glacier, Westland National Park, South Alps, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania

Tourists on Fox Glacier, Westland National Park, South Alps, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania

The Church of St. Iddaburg is sitting on the hill where the old Toggenburg castle stood high above Kirchberg village, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Boat on Maligne Lake, behind it mountain range Queen Elizabeth Ranges with Samson Peak, cloudy sky, Jasper National Park, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada, North America

Joekulsarlon Glacier Lagoon, Icebergs with Glacier, Vatnajoekull National Park, Hornafjoerour, South Iceland, Iceland, Europe

Diamond Beach, icebergs on black lava beach, at Joekulsarlon glacier lagoon, sunrise, Vatnajoekull National Park, Hornafjoerour, South Iceland, Iceland, Europe

Briksdal glacier in north europe Nordfjord norway

On a tourist boat, boat sailing on a lake, Maligne Lake, cloudy sky, Jasper National Park, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada, North America

Briksdal glacier in north europe Nordfjord norway

Icebergs, fog, glacier, Joekulsarlon, Vatnajoekull, South Iceland, National Park, Iceland, Europe

Briksdal glacier in north europe Nordfjord norway

Briksdal glacier in north europe Nordfjord norway

Young woman basking in the sun, sitting outside a cabin, icicles overhead

The Church of St. Iddaburg is sitting on the hill where the old Toggenburg castle stood high above Kirchberg village, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Mauna Kea Observatory, Subaru Telescope, Keck Observatory and Infrared Telescope Facility, Mauna Kea Ice Age Natural Area Reserve, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, North America

Mammoth Styrassic park Bad Gleichenberg Styria Austria Europe

Glacial sink or dip created during the Ice Age on the eastern edge of the Aletsch Glacier, Canton of Valais, Switzerland, Europe

Boat on Maligne Lake, Cloudy Sky, Jasper National Park, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada, North America

Rocky baltic seascape in the evening

Menzingen, Switzerland in a famous drumlin-setting formed by glaciers during the last ice age.

A young Inuit boy climbs out of an igloo in Northwestern Greenland. Many of the Inuit who live in this polar region still live a subsistence hunting lifestyle and practice ice age old traditions. Winter temperatures hover between -20 and -50 Degrees Fahrenheit in this extreme environment.

The hunter is Paul Nagmalik, age 22. Paul drew the tag to go on a polar bear hunt out of Igloolik. Paul told me he was anxious to make a future as a hunter.

Icebergs collect at the end of Lago Grey, below the sweeping tongue of the glacier in Torres del Paine National Park.

View of harbor with ice in Lake Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland