James Balog, a photographer and glaciologist set up cameras at
multiple angles of multiple glaciers around the world to track their
seasonal and long term changes. The result is a multi-year record of how
glaciers are changing in modern times. It felt to me like a documentary
of how he and his crew go out to set up and maintain the cameras,
rather than a documentary on climate change, even though that is a
running theme in the show. The group Balog started is called the Extreme
Ice Survey and if you like the documentary you can check out their
website www.extremeicesurvey.org for more information, pictures and
videos. The images online and on the DVD are some that most people don’t
get a chance to see in person, so I think it is well worth viewing.
[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try
Chasing Shackleton [DVD 910.45].]
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