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Penny Royal Glacier is a hanging alpine glacier in Alaska’s Talkeetna Mountains, north of Palmer, occupying a remote high-elevation landscape of steep mountains, cliffs, and glacial valleys where snow can fall year-round. Reached only by undeveloped backcountry routes, it is mainly visited by mountaineers and wilderness travelers approaching from nearby passes, the valley floor, or the informal Bomber Traverse. The glacier serves for ski travel, wilderness crossing, and access to nearby peaks, but shifting crevasses, moulins, and bergschrunds make travel hazardous. Its setting is closely linked to nearby Bomber Glacier, where a TB-29 Superfortress crashed in 1957 during a training mission, killing six crew members.
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