It begins with a growl.
Then there's a crack — a slurpy, sucky, crunchy noise.
A guy is on the phone, and his pal interrupts him and says, "It's starting, Adam, I think.
Adam? It's starting ..." The two are up on a bluff, overlooking a giant ice field.
They are standing next to time-lapse cameras.
What happens next is astonishing: An enormous frozen, icy hunk of our planet suddenly
opens splits into bits and then sinks right before our eyes into the sea.
It happens so, so quickly.
And the scale of it?. That's the part that shocked me.
When they superimpose part of Manhattan Island onto the ice at the end of the clip you
think " Uh oh."
This is a peek into something monstrous.
" CHASING ICE " captures largest glacier calving ever filmed - OFFICIAL VIDEO
[youtube]hC3VTgIPoGU?rel=0[/youtube]
The video comes from photographer James Balog's film, Chasing Ice.
The two guys on the bluff at the beginning are part of Balog's Extreme Ice Survey team
which maintains scores of time-lapse cameras overlooking glaciers in Greenland, Iceland
Alaska, Canada, the Rockies and the Himalayas.
During daylight hours, they watch and record.
Then they share what they see with scientists and National Geographic, and turn the
footage into movies and TV shows.
Then there's a crack — a slurpy, sucky, crunchy noise.
A guy is on the phone, and his pal interrupts him and says, "It's starting, Adam, I think.
Adam? It's starting ..." The two are up on a bluff, overlooking a giant ice field.
They are standing next to time-lapse cameras.
What happens next is astonishing: An enormous frozen, icy hunk of our planet suddenly
opens splits into bits and then sinks right before our eyes into the sea.
It happens so, so quickly.
And the scale of it?. That's the part that shocked me.
When they superimpose part of Manhattan Island onto the ice at the end of the clip you
think " Uh oh."
This is a peek into something monstrous.
" CHASING ICE " captures largest glacier calving ever filmed - OFFICIAL VIDEO
[youtube]hC3VTgIPoGU?rel=0[/youtube]
The video comes from photographer James Balog's film, Chasing Ice.
The two guys on the bluff at the beginning are part of Balog's Extreme Ice Survey team
which maintains scores of time-lapse cameras overlooking glaciers in Greenland, Iceland
Alaska, Canada, the Rockies and the Himalayas.
During daylight hours, they watch and record.
Then they share what they see with scientists and National Geographic, and turn the
footage into movies and TV shows.
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