Driven by a love of glaciers and a need to see them before they disappear, Garrett Fisher piloted his 1949 antique airplane across the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, photographing remaining glaciers in the American Rockies. From Rocky Mountain National Park to the Wind River Range, Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone, and Glacier National Park, the Rockies contain a surprising number of glaciers tucked away in wilderness areas…that is, until they are gone...

The Bernese Alps of the Swiss Alps contain renowned and iconic scenery in Switzerland, including the Jungfrau, Eiger, and Mönch, standing tall over Grindelwald and Interlaken. The range is also an epicenter of the largest glacier in Continental Europe, at 23 kilometers long, with a host of many other significant alpine glaciers. All of them are melting and doing so rapidly, succumbing to the realities of climate change. Recent Swiss university studies indicate that only one will remain as a sliver of its present majestic size...

The author’s 4th aerial texture book and 23rd book overall, ‘Mountain Texture’ is a comprehensive gallery of aerial images taken of glaciers found in Switzerland, France, and Italy. Utilizing a light antique airplane from the WWII era, images of these majestic glaciers show patterns, textures, and details of massive formations of ice, from the intimate perspective of an aircraft flying slowly above. While the glaciers themselves are in the process of recession and extinction, they remain literal rivers of ice that carve immense alpine topography. In their natural cycles of movement, they present themselves as unique and ever-changing works of art, difficult to appreciate through ordinary means on the ground or from satellites above. Containing 167 aerial images, ‘Mountain Texture’ presents virtually unrepeatable views of countless glaciers of the Alps, whether from the perspective closely above, annual flows in ice, or the effects of climate change.

Glaciers of Switzerland contains aerial photographs of every glacier in Switzerland. Taken from an antique aircraft at slow speeds, the work is an intimate perspective of majestic features which are hard to reach if not accessible for most. Often calling them “forbidden views” in that few will enjoy the unique vantage point of a small aircraft over the glaciers, the author immersed himself in years of high mountain flying, searching every valley in the Swiss Alps for remaining ice. As part of the Global Glacier Initiative, which seeks to photograph the earth’s glaciers before they melt, the work is a catalog our shared climactic and geological history in the Alps, taken at a point in time where no human in modern history will see again at the same size. In the summer following the last season of photography for the book, 6% of remaining glacial mass in the Alps melted. While it is a stirring view of glacial beauty, it is sadly already history. The book contains 928 images, broken into geographic regions with detailed maps of the location of each photograph. Images were taken spanning summer seasons to reveal the glaciers in their finest details without the cover of winter snows.