Wow, James Balog has no fear! A 21st century hero, who scaled glaciers in the frigid cold, throughout the world in order to photograph ice melt over time and bring home the visual message... climate change impacts are real.
Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) shows climate change impacts in the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted, using time-lapse, video and conventional photography at sites in the Himalaya, Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Canada, Bolivia, the Alps, and the northern U.S. Rockies.
Maybe you've heard of James Balog?
I bought and read the National Geographic issue that highlighted his work awhile back, and today received word that he (along with 9 others) won a Heinz Award for his dramatic use of photography to document the devastation of global warming.
As for me, I took the Brewster's "Ice Age Adventure" onto the icy slopes of the Athabasca Glacier in Canada two years ago.
With about 100 other tourists.
We learned just how dangerous it can be scaling a glacier, where one can fall into a crevasse never to be seen again.
James Balog is a 21st century climate change hero and I can see why he won a $100,000 Heinz Award prize.
He got me thinking; I wouldn't mind returning and seeing the ice melt impacts since my last trip.
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