"CHASING ICE" captures largest glacier calving ever filmed - OFFICIAL VIDEO

I'm on the phone with Jim on one of our regular check-ins Jim just nothing's happening it's going well we had some serious bouts of wind but other than that things are fairly well set up here you've got it's starting at him I think goddamn it starting yeah let me call you back that okay yeah for that fee section right there holy look at that big bird rolling all four right look at that you see how look at the whole thing the calving phases 300 sometimes 400 feet tall pieces of ice we're shooting up out of the ocean 600 feet and then falling the only way that you can really try to put it in the scale with human references if you imagine a Manhattan and all of a sudden all of those buildings just start to rumble and quake and peel off and just fall over and fall over and roll around this whole massive city just breaking apart in front of your honest we're just observers these two little dots on the side of the mouth we watched and recorded the largest witness carrion event ever caught on tape so how big was this calving event that we just looked at will resort to some illustrations again to give you a sense of scale it's as if the entire lower tip of Manhattan broke off except that the thickness the height of it is equivalent to buildings that are two-and-a-half or three times higher than they are [Music] you [Music] that's a magical miraculous horrible scary thing I don't know that anybody's really seen the miracle and horror of that it took a hundred years for it to retreat eight miles from 1900 to 2000 from 2000 to 2010 it retreated nine miles so in ten years it retreated more than it had in the previous 100 [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Exposure Labs

Views: 56,246,199

Rating: 4.8452358 out of 5

Keywords: Chasing Ice, Extreme Ice Survey, James Balog, Jeff Orlowski, EIS, Documentary, Film, Sundance Film Festival, Ice, Calving, Glacier

Id: hC3VTgIPoGU

Length: 4min 42sec (282 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 14 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/RaezK]

That is pretty interesting to see. I appreciated the time lapse part of the video at the end to get a better idea of the scale of it...

[u/BFG_9000]

This looked like a giant whale rising through the ice.

[u/[deleted]]

the sound is too perfect, when ever I film in the open all I hear is the wind in my microphone

[u/CuriousRob]

If it weren't for global warming, we'd never see shit this cool! I'm starting my car and letting it idle for an hour! #doingmypart

[u/montyburnz258]

I really wanted to see a giant space ship rise out from the rubble.

[u/PotatoDerp]

As terrifying as it would be, this makes me wish giant creatures were real. The event itself looks almost alive. It's beautiful.

[u/thatguy52]

I need some perspective.... I can currently bench press 300lbs. If I increased my protein intake and worked out 5x a week, how long would it take me to be able to bench press the ice that calved off?

[u/[deleted]]

The most satisfying noise ever. I bet you could feel it in your chest if you were there in person.

[u/IAmTinyTim]

Was it me or did anyone else see a whale coming up from the ice?