While the Global Glacier Initiative, Inc. is a non-profit corporation at the state level in the United States, it is 501(c)(3) status …
2100
The Year that ETH Zürich Predicts Only 2 Glaciers left in Switzerland
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Percentage of built in Additional Glacier Loss if we go to Carbon Zero now
2030
The year science initially predicted that glaciers would melt in Glacier national park USA
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Percentage glacial loss in the Swiss Alps since 1850
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Flight paths of the 2021 glacier flying season. I was hoping to have acquired the next aircraft in the fleet by the …
Dufourspitze, Switzerland (15,203′) in April. While there are glaciers in there, most of the white stuff is seasonal snow. Not exactly the …
Gannett Glacier, Wyoming, 2015 As the idea behind the Global Glacier Initiative advances, it has become time to formalize the mission into …
Our Mission
“Get them before they are gone.” Carbon zero and saving some of our remaining glaciers would be ideal. If we miss that goal, its a race against time to document the glaciers before they disappear for good.
How It's Done
There are a lot of options to view glaciers: satellites, ground visits, drones, boats, and helicopters. Why are airplanes from the 1940s and 50s more cost-effective, efficient, and capable?
Strategic Plan
There are glaciers on every continent except Australia, which means there is a lot of ground to cover if our mission is to be achieved. We have an efficient plan to document a reasonable majority of them in the next two decades.
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Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.”
Halldór Laxness
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Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.”
George Leigh Mallory
