I really like that you don't hear people squealing and saying "Oh my god" over and over. The sound of the wind is a perfect counterpoint to the power of the ice moving up and down.
I was just about to frantically yell "oh my God" as soon as I heard that baby glaciers are referred to as "calves"! Being that glaciers spend the first part of their lives on land, and the latter part in the water, I'd categorize them as "amphibians". Therefore, I assumed that newborn baby glaciers were either called "tadpoles" or maybe "froglets"..... (not my best attempt at humor ever).
Thank you for posting without music or talking. Just hearing the sound of the crashing glaciers is so awesome. See glaciers rising out of the water like huge whales is something I just can't describe. The beautiful blue coloring of the glaciers, is something unforgettable.
About six months ago I think there was a huge glacier calving in Antarctica the glacier retreated more in 30 minutes than it did in the past hundred years
I love this, I've also watched dozens of these and this was the best. I really liked how everyone just watched in awe, no hooting, or cheering like they're watching fireworks. Beautiful!
M'y lif sh'is don't plus d'blém q'and j'suis plus chez (de)lés Parents. Le zoo j'peut cachez des,est c'est dutout problémes Sy mes entoure ou les entoures créés pas d'problémes.
First limiting view, jiggling too, I was skeptical. But in less than a minute view changed and it is spectacular! One of the more unusual videos of this kind I have watched. Most you see big chunks falling in water but to see extremely huge pieces the size of ships coming up from under the water very different. Excellent.
Qué gustazo verlo sin gritos histéricos ni comentarios de apreciación. Solo ruido de viento y el hielo chocando, rozando y cayendo en el agua. Gracias por la publicación!
That water at the foot of the glacier must be REALLY deep, for those enormous icebergs to roll around like that. That's crazy stuff! I could stand there and watch that for days....
Huh Huh Why, is it super cold? Well, the first thing I always do in these glacier calving situations, is to start a technical climb of the most unstable areas that are about to collapse. Once they start collapsing, I quickly swap my crampons for snowboard boots, grab my snowboard off my pack, and snowboard down the collapsing chunks. Then I quickly strap on my ice hockey skates, and skate around the sides of the iceberg as it rolls in the ocean. Why? It's challenging!
jumper F22 Not if I was wearing my dry suit. But wearing a dry suit would remove the element of danger, and make it less challenging. So I'd probably just do it completely naked....
The height of ice wall above the water is something on the order of 52 meters (170 feet). I estimated this using the fall time of a dark chunk at 1:29 that seems to free-fall for a moment.
¡Gracias Argentina!, por tanta belleza, coexistiendo, al mismo tiempo con magníficas selvas y las cataratas de Iguazú en Misiones, y tantas otras zonas únicas.
I had the opportunity to watch many icebergs calve from my kayak when I paddled the Inside passage from Bellingham, WA to Skagway, AK (twice). Pretty exciting when your in a small boat on the water even at a safe distance as you can get surrounded by bergy bits which can be quite hazardous. Sad to think that there may not be any permanent ice left on the planet by 2100.
Looked like there was meltwater behind the ice helping to 'push' the ice 'wall' into the bay. As the ice collapsed into the 'bay', it raised the bay water level and as this water flowed away it helped to carry the icebergs away from the ice wall. Pretty frosty eh.
WOW!!! Before one of us dies, I really want to take my Mother there to see that spectacularly awesome spectacle....There's nothing like the power, beauty and violence of Mother Nature. Agree, Anyone? Thanks for the crazy cool post!!!
About the most spectacular ice wall calving I've seen. Those mountains of ice popping to the surface, and bobbing about to settle for the most balanced position, is like whales moving on slow motion or buildings collapsing.
A bit of advice, Hugo, in the future try to either get closer or zoom in. Get a good position and stay in it while holding your camera steady. See that guy standing in front of you with his hand on his hip? I want to see HIS video. I bet it was great! Best wishes.
There's always a massive low in the Gulf of Alaska pumping Pacific moisture onto those very tall mountains so close to the coast . . . that's where the snow/melt is before avalanches create glaciers.
Those things are fucking COLOSSAL. Just the fought of a fucking building sized thing rising out of the water and coming back down careening towards the surface of the water gives me goosebumps.
just think 10,000 to 13,000 years ago glaciers were up to 2 miles high,wish i could jump back in time with my cell phone and take a selfie standing in front of one.
