"Glacier Exit", A Portrait Of Rapid Environmental Change • Discoverology

“Glacier Exit”, A Portrait Of Rapid Environmental Change

Filmmaker Raphael Rogers stood on the ice dunes of the glaciers of Alaska in the midst of a snowy winter. The silence and majesty of the mountains surrounding us, the bluest ice we had ever seen and the steady rush of ice turned to water. 

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