“ And spring temperatures seem to happen earlier than normal. They told me stories about 200m high icebergs when they grew up, and now they are reduced to more than half of that.” He says. “I spoke to several residents genuinely concerned about their future and livelihood. Klo says the changes are even evident anecdotally on a local level. The irregularity of the bedrock and valley wall topography both slows and accelerates the progress of glaciers. Many glaciers are funneled through gaps in the chain of coastal mountains. ![]() It is thought the iceberg that sunk Titanic off the Grand Banks in 1912 was produced by one of these glaciers, reaching its destiny with the doomed liner over 5,000 miles from where it was calved off from its mother ice flow. Iceberg - Arctic, Melting, Calving: Most Arctic icebergs originate from the fast-flowing glaciers that descend from the Greenland Ice Sheet. They’ve taken these bottles ( as well as a four-tonne melting iceberg from Greenland) and set up camp (literally) at a handful of world events such as COP26, the Davos World Economic Forum, and, in a matter of days, Glastonbury. Many travel great distances, and can be thousands of years old, beginning life far inland, as snow. Arctic Basecamp is the group that have found themselves taking an unlikely career tangent to water bottling. Icebergs have been a part of the environment of Greenland’s south-east for as long as humans have been there to see it. Many scientists believe changes in the region comprise the most reliable barometer we have for the rate of climate change and that Greenland’s melting is reaching a tipping point that could have huge repercussions on global sea level rise. Between 20, the colossal island lost approximately 280 billion tons of ice per year both from the icebergs calving off the glaciers, and-more unusually- melting from the land-fast ice shelf. A recent study showed the rate of melting in 2012 to be four times that of 2003. “I wanted to try to convey the dynamic play between the obviously beautiful landscape and structures, and this menacing energy of a worrying future.” “It certainly took me a couple of visits to really understand it photography-wise.” Klo told National Geographic (UK) over email. Often captured with fast shutter speeds from a boat jostled by falling ice, or from the perspective of a drone, over time the images developed a vibe that was starkly beautiful, but melancholy. Over three visits to the region in four years, Norwegian photographer Stian Klo’s photography of icebergs and the life around them has become an artistic tribute to a transient-and diminishing-environment. It’s a journey that is getting more crowded every day. ![]() The sea horizon is ragged with blue islands, drifting away into the North Atlantic and every day, tens of kilometres of more ice calves into the dark water to begin its journey into oblivion. In this UNESCO World Heritage Site icebergs are everywhere: big, small, drifting, tipping, melting, falling. Here, creaks and roars signal the shearing of ice columns the size of skyscrapers from south-western Greenland’s Isua and Sermeq Kujalleq glaciers into the waters of the frigid Ilulissat Icefjord. 250 kilometres north of the Arctic circle is a place of thunderous and near-constant destruction.
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