In 2021, in the depths of a cold winter in the Alps, with borders largely closed and COVID-19 at its worst, I decided to devote myself to flying to as many nonpolar glaciers on Earth as possible, to photograph them for future generations.
The American founder of the Global Glacier Initiative, author of 31 books, financial consultant, photographer & pilot is on a mission to capture as many glaciers as he can before they disappear, while leaning out of the single engine plane he inherited from his grand father.
The American photographer and pilot is on a mission to capture as many glaciers as he can, leaning out of his single-engine plane, before they disappear. Here, he talks about working in the Alps and creating a record of images for future generations.
With research suggesting that glaciers are melting faster than ever before, financial consultant-turned-photographer Garrett Fisher is in a race to capture as many as he can.
For the past three summers, the Buffalo, N.Y., native, who now lives in Gstaad, Switzerland, has flown over the Alps in a single propeller, 1949 Piper PA-11, photographing the enormous bodies of ice.
בהרי הרוקי בארצות הברית או באלפים השווייציים — גארט פישר משתמש במטוס פייפר ישן שירש מסבו כדי לצלם קרחונים יבשתיים. "אני מקווה שזה יגרום לאנשים לעצור ולומר — חבל שאנחנו מאבדים אותם", הוא אומר בשיחה עמו
Satellite images and the latest scientific studies may accurately inform us how quickly the world’s glaciers are melting. But Garrett Fisher’s mission is different: to reveal the “souls” of vanishing glaciers.
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.