Mountains, icebergs, glaciers: Prinz Kristiansund

                                                          Bergs at sea, on way to PKS









                                       


                                                                 Glacier ice  










                                            Entering PKS from the head, from Aappiattoq village




                                                 Found a cool little cove by a glacier








Same view as above. Taken in evening, when the glacier sheds more ice during the warm afternoon & evening. The glacier moves faster. The calving ice hits the rock and shatters into these fragments.








       Neatly tucked in for the night. The chart (printed 2000) shows that this spot was all solid ice. Everything in the photo was encased in ice 20 years ago. 



                                                  Another glacier















                                                           Descending Prinz Kristiansund
















        The splash of ice that fell from on high. We enjoyed watching for these and saw lots of icefall. 

Comments

  1. Victoria Foote-BlackmanSeptember 9, 2023 at 5:17 AM

    Nick, these photos, each and every one, are just astounding. What a sight, so enormously majestic in a way we urban dwellers rarely get to see the greatness, and yet also how tragic, to see them calving--not unfortunately giving birth to new glaciers but just chipping away at their own lifespans. Am so profoundly happy to think you are seeing all this now while there is still time. What do you and your crew think seeing all this? A bit like William Shatner's beautiful and so sincere but heartbreaking response to seeing the earth from space?

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  2. sophieSeptember 11, 2023 at 7:13 AM

    Yes, you are bearing witness to a fading beauty , the end of an age. The quality of these photos is impressive.

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