29 September 2008

Posts from Monday 29 Sep

Freeze Frame(d)

Today as breakfast ended we were treated to a spectacular iceberg show as we journeyed down the ice fjord towards the front of the Jakobshavn Glacier Each berg more beautiful than the one that came before, you couldn’t help but feel in awe that this happens every day, that the ‘show’ wasn’t for our benefit, merely something we were lucky enough to stumble upon. I found myself stood on deck in my birkenstocks unable to turn away from everything before me. And as I sit here typing this blog on my bunk bed, I begin to wonder – did I actually see what I think I saw?
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By Hannah Bird
Monday 29 Sep, 15:54
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Take Me To Your Fisherman

Pass through the icebergs coming off the Ilulissat glacier – it produces the largest icebergs in the northern hemisphere. The glacier’s retreat has been accelerating markedly across the last fifty years, making it one of the easy reference points for climate change storytelling. This is one of the place journalists practice the green virtue of recycling as they re-tread the same stories time and again.

Read on and more of Joe’s posts, and his colleagues’ responses, on the Science, Technology and Nature Blog.

By Joe Smith
Monday 29 Sep, 14:03
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Walking near Ilulissat Kangia

Hiking across a melting glacier overlooking Ilulissat Kangia
Walking on ‘Little Eqe’ near the mouth of Ilulissat Kangia.

By Kathy Barber
Monday 29 Sep, 13:54
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Ilulissat Kangia

KT Tunstall walking at Ilulissat Kangia

By KT Tunstall
Monday 29 Sep, 13:31
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The film crew

Director Peter Gilbert and documentary crew Zak Piper and Adam Singer at Ilulissat Kangia

Director Peter Gilbert and documentary crew Zak Piper and Adam Singer film as the group climbs Little Eqe at the mouth of the glacier named Ilulissat Kangia (Danish name – Jacobshavn Glacier).

By Peter Gilbert
Monday 29 Sep, 13:15
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Justifying bad behaviour

This morning I walked across the fresh snow with a gas cylinder in my arms, containing 6kg of CO2. I took it across the unspoiled snow field of the Jakobshavn Fjord until I found what, to my eyes, was a wonderful place.

From a little hill I could see massive icebergs impassably floating by, some of them breaking up from time to time with a loud bang. The sea below was deep grey, which made the icebergs stand up in all their beauty and fragility. The sky was a merge of pale grey and cerulean with a yellow glow just behind the skyline. Lichen and small berry plants could be felt under the powdery snow as I walked by. I thought this is perfect!
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