Man Travels the World to Photograph Melting Glaciers

2022-12-24

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  • Not too long ago, 41-year-old Garrett Fisher flew in a small airplane close to the surface of Europe's largest glacier, which is in Norway.
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  • A glacier is a huge area of snow and ice that moves slowly down a mountain side.
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  • In that environment, the plane carrying a man who chases glaciers seemed almost like a toy.
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  • Fisher combines two activities he loves, flying and photography, trying to photograph every glacier on Earth.
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  • He wants his photos to show the beauty of glaciers before some of them disappear.
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  • Scientists say many glaciers are melting or getting smaller because the Earth's average temperature is increasing.
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  • Information from the European Environmental Agency, or EEA, says glaciers in the Alps Mountains have lost about half of their volume since 1900.
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  • The melting has gotten faster since the 1980s.
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  • The EEA said that by 2100, the size of European glaciers could decrease by between 22 percent and 84 percent.
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  • Another EEA estimate suggests that up to 89 percent could melt.
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  • The EEA also says nearly all small glaciers in Norway will likely disappear.
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  • Roderik van de Wal is a glacier expert at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
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  • He said that scientists have good historical records of the size of glaciers in Europe and New Zealand.
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  • He added that those records show that glaciers are now melting faster.
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  • For Fisher, this means that time is running out.
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  • The melting pushes him to try to photograph the glaciers before it is too late.
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  • As a child, Fisher lived next door to a small airport in the state of New York.
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  • His grandfather was a pilot and took Fisher on plane rides when he was a young child.
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  • The older man would tell him: "Whatever you set your mind to, you can do."
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  • In the late 1990s, a friend told Fisher that the world's glaciers were disappearing.
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  • This pushed him to combine his love of flying and photography to photograph the Earth's remaining glaciers.
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  • He believed he was in a race against time.
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  • He believes his photographs could be of great value to future generations.
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  • So, he has launched Global Glacier Initiative, a non-profit group to support and show his work.
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  • He plans to open his photos to the public for research.
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  • Fisher flies a small plane called a Piper Super Cub which can carry two people.
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  • The plane smells of oil and feels like an old car. It is his choice for the dangerous flying over the glaciers.
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  • "The weather's bad, extremely cold, the winds are very strong and the flying's extremely technically challenging," Fisher said.
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  • "And to photograph glaciers, we're getting very close to all of this action. So, it requires a lot of skill, time and determination."
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  • He added: "I've been told by many pilots that I'm crazy."
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  • He has detailed plans in case of a crash on a glacier.
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  • He estimates he can survive for about 24 hours if he goes down.
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  • And he has measured the tail of the plane to be sure he can stay inside it while waiting for help.
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  • Some people would ask, why risk flying over glaciers when satellites already give pictures of them?
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  • Fisher said that satellite images don't capture the beauty of glaciers the way his photos can.
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  • His photos show the colors, shapes, and shadows as the light from the sun hits the glaciers.
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  • "Science has all of the data we need...The problem is, it's not beautiful," he said.
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  • Fisher has paid for his glacier photography with his own money. But it is costly.
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  • Money is running out and Fisher is looking for people who will help support his work.
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  • He hopes his photos will make people care more about glaciers.
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  • He is chasing the perfect image; one so beautiful it can make people and policymakers act.
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  • "We can live without them. We will live without them," Fisher says.
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  • "However, it hurts us to lose them."
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  • I'm Andrew Smith.