In November 1957, a US Air Force B29 bomber set out on a routine training mission near Anchorage, Alaska. The flight turned disastrous shortly after with a crash into a remote glacier north of Palmer, AK. Six of the ten on board were killed and the rest would have followed the same fate, except for a heroic rescue effort. The glacier came to be known as Bomber Glacier and the site can be visited via several routes including the Reed Lakes Trail.