Montage of several days worth of Calving as huge chunks of glacier fall off. Some as high as 300' fall into the Copper River below Child's Glacier near Cordova, Alaska.
Well.. the bottom drags along the bottom! The crest doesn't get near the dirt. It has long been described how moving ice carves out new landscapes. The 'carvings' get swept up an carried along!
Glaciers are probably the most erosive feature on earth as a whole. The amount of material they can remove is incomprehensible to us. Glaciers can push material if they are over land and carve out those pristine valleys and fjords. Just look at Canada or chile to see the effects glaciers can have. The material on top is bits of rock that have fallen away form the sides of the valley wall.
As I watch this amazing footage a thought crosses my mind, wondering how many people realize our eyes are the first humans to see this ice as the old falls away..if the ice could only talk to us, what wonders it would reveal...
C'est la crosse de l'humanite quand il n'y aura plus d'eau douce avec son egoiste aura tout Detruit nature annimeaux et qu'il n'y aura plus equilibre faudrais pas pleure c'est Porche plus que l'on l'on pense voila cela a deja commence et le monde s'en fou puisqu'il continue a se rejete la responssabilite Ps la nature est plus forte que l'homme elle vis sans nous Allors ???😮 😢
These drone shots are AMAZING!! These are PREFCTLY STILL videos. Can't even compare to the side-of-the-boat cell-phone vids. These are another plane of existence! MORE OF THIS PLEASE! 👍 p.s. I just SUBSCRIBED!
I used to live in Cordova! We used to drive out the road up to the forest service parking lot overlooking the view you see on the cam across ft the parking lot and watch this! Words don’t even describe it! Only in Alaska! Think about it! You can’t see something like this anywhere else!😉👍😳
I was there in May of 1974 floating the copper in a Ted Williams raft I bought from Sears in Anchorage. The river was still frozen by the first glacier (Miles) where I fired a shot to make it calf. Big scary mistake 😎
Awesome footage. I wonder if it would be possible to get a good directional mic on shore and sync it to the drone footage? The calving sounds are really impressive themselves.
I didn't lose a drone here but did get close. It took about 20 hours of flight time to put that 10 minutes of video together and there were a couple of close calls. I'm no stranger to losing drones though. I've lost drones in hurricanes, near tornadoes, hitting power lines over water and have many with gimbals that don't work from water and wind damage.
Great camera work!! It's to bad that you can't get the sound of the calving. The thunder that they create is almost as spectacular as the calving. You said that you might go back. Have you thought about tape recording them as well. It would be pretty labor intensive however. I videoed a bunch of calvings of Hubbard Glacier during a kayak trip which is on RU-vid. Tried to crank up the noise which didn't work out so well. Hubbard is now an advancing glacier. It recedes during global cooling.
Je me demande toujours pourquoi l eau est noirâtre. Le glacier ne tombe pas dans un lac mais dans la mer ! Et la mer n est pas marron ? Alors ? Et aussi il n y a jamais de vagues. Sauf bien sûr lorsque la glace tombe.
Glaciers carry huge amounts of ground rock, debris and gravel beneath and in them - the ice wears the rocks down - , so it's ground down rock that gets flushed into the ocean..
@@WxChasing sorry but the Hubbard glacier is the fastest growing glacier in the word! And the last Alaskan glacier tour that I took half of the glaciers were longer accessible because glaciers have destroyed the roads to them And one of the glacier we toured the guide said that it would soon be gone because it advanced 1 meter in the winter but receded 2 feet every summer. And on the tour of the mendinthal glacier the guide said how fast it was receding and I showed him the photos that I took 5 years before and pointed out how far it had advanced! And he tried to make me delete my photos! The stories of glacier retreat are all fraudulent
@@WxChasing you do know that calving only takes place when glaciers are rapidly advancing past the terminus. I have been on many retreating glaciers and you can always walk up onto them because the terminus melts down to the moraine!
@@terenceiutzi4003 Hubbard is one glacier, there are an estimated 100,000 glaciers in Alaska of which a large majority are retreating. I'm sure you had the ultimate anecdotal evidence of a global change conspiracy completely destroyed by that tour guide in Alaska because that is logical. Think of it like the stock market. Some days go down but the general direction has always been up over long periods of time. It's the difference between weather and climate. Besides, if you are smart enough to read a thermometer or tidal guage then you are smart enough to realize the Earth is warming and sea levels are rising. It's really that simple.
@@terenceiutzi4003 Both retreating and growing glaciers experience calving for a multitude of reasons. Some are far more active than others. Some are safe to be near, others are not.
I enjoyed your videos but can do without the words in them. I get it, you shot the video but don't need to ruin the pics. Also wish the drone had audio.
The drone has a wide angle camera and the face of that glacier is the equivalent to a 35 story building. Wish there was a way to capture the scale. Plus you never know where the glacier will calf next. Get too close and you can miss one right next to you. It took about 30 hours of drone flights to capture these..For the smaller ones, I wish I had gotten closer but if I got any closer to the bigger ones I would have lost the drone. Then you never know which will be the big one or the little one. It's quite challenging. When I go back I have a plan to get a little of both. )
Agree with other comment. Far too close. Stupid watermark. No sound effects, until 6 mins in. Suppose we should be thankful that there's no awful music. Overall, I'd rather watch goo HD amateur footage
bad filming. with the camera angled for the most part toward the water and not the glacier. i hate drones they are starting too wear out now with everybody using them.
There are thousands of videos shot from the cameras and video cameras from wider angles since it is easy to do. You just set up a camera on a tripod and hit record. This is the only known up close drone video of glacier calving. In hindsight, I would probably angle up slighlty higher but was trying to catch both the calving process as well as the impact at water level with the residual waves but that glacier face is 330' tall and to capture it all from the top to the water level is nearly impossible given it's a quarter to half mile area where the calving occurs and there is little to no warning.
Idk y everyone in these glacier calving clap and cheer while they are witnessing our planet slowly dieing right befor their eyes. This is not at all a happy moment instead its actually very saddening😨😨😨
Global warming is a real issue, but glacier calving happens no matter what because the glaciers themselves are always moving like a river toward the ocean causing the ice by the ends to crack. It's a constant cycle
@@gododgers3491 Climate change is an issue tho. But the point here is that glacier calving will happen no matter what because glaciers naturally flow toward the ocean. Forcing the ice to break at the ends
It is dieing for a fact ......people just dont understand that 5000 years from now what do people think will happen when all the ice melts??.... of course it's not gonna happen over night that's why people enjoy seeing it and ya I get it we should enjoy the wonders our planet has to offer while we are on this planet but the actual picture mother nature is painting us is that our emissions are and will continue to melt our ice caps and glaciers worldwide
And there will come a point in time that inevitably our planet will have no more ice on it .maybe not anywhere near our life time but will definitely happen wether we like it or not. Which is probly the reason we are so desperate to find life else where.