Ice: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

HardCover. Pub Date :2012-09-11 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications A never-before-seen look into the forbidding environment of glaciers. this book celebrates a realm of magnificent endangered beauty Since 2005. renowned nature. photographer James Balog has devoted himself to capturing glaciers and documenting their daily changes. These stunning images are a celebration of some of the most extraordinary natural formations on earth. as well as a dramatic and timely demonstration of the stark consequences resulting from global warming-from Alaska to Iceland to the Alps. As glaciologists for the Extreme Ice Survey. Balog and his team are conducting the most extensive glacier study ever. covering France. Switzerland. Iceland. Greenland. the United States (Alaska and Montana). Nepal. Bolivia. and Antarctica. Their high-resolution cameras cap...