The year that ETH Zurich predicts only 2 glaciers left in Switzerland.
Percentage of built in additional glacier loss if we go to Carbon zero now.
The year science initially predicted that glaciers world melt in Glacier National Park USA.
Percentage glacial loss in the Swiss Alps since 1850.
Global Glacier Initiative Inc is a Wyoming, USA non-profit corporation with 501(c)(3) tax exempt status as a public charity.
The mission of the Initiative is to photograph as many
non-polar glaciers as possible “before they are gone” using
small aircraft.
The purpose of the aerial perspective is to convey an artistically engaging human interest element to these shared and disappearing treasures. The Initiative is operated by its Founder, Garrett Fisher, who has been privately chasing glaciers in a small airplane since 2015.
The Global Glacier Initiative, in furtherance of the application of collected images, intends to develop programs to support climate outreach and education, with the purpose of making these disappearing glaciers understandable to those who cannot visit them in person.
“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.
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?
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.
When the Global Glacier Initiative was founded, the idea was to spend e
The original intention for 2024 was Iceland, however a slew of project
First snows in the Arctic and foul weather forced me and the plane out
As is the case with most complex endeavors, time continues to reveal ho
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
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
