15Oct

Swiss Alps 2024

Garrett Fisher

When the Global Glacier Initiative was founded, the idea was to spend each season at a different mountain range, photographing as many glaciers as possible in each season. The thesis was that, by doing as much as possible per year, the highest chance of “photographing them before they are gone” would happen, and the goal […]

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15Aug

Norway & Sweden 2024

Garrett Fisher

The original intention for 2024 was Iceland, however a slew of project maintenance delays and overruns from maintenance organizations tipped the schedule past the point of no return. 2024 would be a lost season. Or would it? It became evident that the missed items in Norway and Sweden could be completed. What is more, they […]

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1Oct

Pyrenees

Garrett Fisher

First snows in the Arctic and foul weather forced me and the plane out of Norway and into Switzerland, where the routine practice of shoulder season photography takes place. “Glacier season” starts when the winter snows have melted enough and goes until first snows cover them up. Sometimes, the lower tongues remain open longer, or […]

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12Sep

As is the case with most complex endeavors, time continues to reveal how difficult our mission is. In 2022, it was assumed all the glaciers of continental Norway and Sweden could be photographed in one season. That was quickly amended to two seasons, with 2023 scheduled for the second half. Reality had other intentions. Like […]

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10Dec

Image by AP/Bram Janssen A photographer from the Associated Press contacted us well after The Guardian ran an article in 2021 about the formation of the Global Glacier Initiative. The goal was to produce a piece that highlighted our work, in article, photograph, and video format, and distribute it to broadcasters worldwide. Naturally, we were […]

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15Sep

Southern Norway

Garrett Fisher

When the 2022 season was being planned, it was assumed that all the glaciers of Norway and Sweden would be photographed. A house was rented for almost three months, a base of operations arranged, automotive transport brought in, and the like. Within a few days after arrival, it was apparent that the weather is too […]

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30Sep

The Alps – Completed

Garrett Fisher

I was hoping to have acquired the next aircraft in the fleet by the time glacier season in the summer of 2021 began; however, the pandemic and other factors got in the way, so the only choice was to give it a whirl with the existing 1949 PA-11. While the airplane can clearly undertake the […]

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12Jun

As the next glacier season approaches in a few months, my mind has been focusing on the many mountain ranges that I would like to be visiting. There is a lifetime of glaciers to chase and photograph from northern Alaska to the tip of Argentina, among many other places. It does present a tad of […]

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10May

As the idea behind the Global Glacier Initiative advances, it has become time to formalize the mission into an organization. The Global Glacier Initiative, Inc. has been formed as a public benefit corporation in the US State of Wyoming. As of this writing, the exemption application for 501(c)(3) non-profit status with the Internal Revenue Service […]

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15Apr

While strategic plans, organization missions, and the like are partially on the site already and will invariably be added to as time goes by, there is something pure about stating the general idea behind the Global Glacier Initiative, in fairly direct prose, while things are very early. One of the biggest things going on in […]

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1Mar

An Idea is Born

Garrett Fisher

Sometimes big ideas show up without announcing themselves with much fanfare in advance. My personal fixation with glaciers dates back to the late 1990s. As a teenager, a studious friend of mine noted one of the first studies that made it to the popular mainstream that forecast the extinction of glaciers in Glacier National Park, […]

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Recent Post

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