Tencho Glacier

Tencho Glacier is the largest glacier in the Mount Edziza volcanic complex, in northwestern British Columbia within Mount Edziza Provincial Park. Originating from Ice Peak and Tennena Cone on Mount Edziza’s southern flank, it feeds small streams that drain the massif in several directions. Its Tahltan-derived name, combining words for ice and big or great, was proposed in 1979 and made official in 1980. The glacier is also significant for preserving evidence of the volcanic terrain beneath and beside it, including obsidian, thick pumice deposits, and landforms that may record eruption activity and a former meltwater lake when the glacier extended farther south.

British Columbia · Canada