Garrett Fisher combines his two passions, photography and flight, in a quest to document every remaining glacier on the face of the Earth so whatever disappears will be remembered.
Because the climate clock is ticking, and the planet's glaciers are melting.Because, in the end, nothing lasts forever — not even ancient glaciers.Glaciers aren't static. In a world that's getting warmer, they're getting smaller."It is the front line of climate change … the first indication that we're losing something.
He saw them disappearing, and he wanted to make sure these pieces of the world — pieces he saw as indescribably beautiful — were preserved, if only in pixels."They're views you can't have on the ground, that don't really exist for anyone else."Any documentation he makes of the glaciers before their demise, he believes, could be invaluable to future generations.
He travelled around Norway's west coast, photographing nature: fjords, mountains, waterfalls … and glaciers. Anxiety dispels into moments of profound peace. It's as if the altitude – the distance from the world we know – makes all that's happening on the planet below seem a little more manageable."The weather's bad, extremely cold, the winds are very strong and the flying's extremely technically challenging," Fisher says.
He has calculated that he can survive for about 24 hours if he goes down and has measured the tail of the plane to be sure he can fit into it and stay out of the elements while he waits for help.Fisher moves around a lot: The United States, Spain, Norway. He rarely stops.
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