One of the first promotional trailer recorded in Greenland some years ago.
Extreme Ice Survey EIS hour lapse documentary
Of greenland today
20 MAR 2012
National Geographic photographer James Balog debuts a new documentary on climate change effects in the Arctic »Chasing Ice «.
The film documents the work of the project »Extreme Ice Survey« abbreviated EIS.
Besides the film there is a book released in autumn 2012, to support both the website and lectures.
The project will document changes in the Arctic environment. With 27 cameras pointing at 18 glaciers around the world, the project takes 8,000 pictures a year, so-called time-laps.
Put together in the documentary film shows images of glacier changes over time.
EIS director James Balog rappelling into Survey Canyon, looking down at moulin channel
dropping meltwater 2,000 vertical feet into crevasses through the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Glaciers movements become »live« when they suddenly speeded up to a rate where we humans can see it.
See more
EIS website with many more hours lapses.
