Glacial retreat
The Jorge Montt Glacier is one of major tidewater glaciers of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field (Campo de Hielo Sur), Chile. This glacier is one of the most rapidly retreating glaciers in the world, losing around 24 km in length since 1898, much of it beginning in the 1990s with climate change (Journal of Glaciology, v 65 #263, 2019). The fractured face of the glacier is evidence of its instability, as is the large amount of brash ice around the face. Getting near the face on this rainy day required a lot of manoevering in a zodiac through the ice that had a consistency of a giant slushy. The dark area to the left is a patch of highly compressed old black ice.
18/04/2021 www.allenfotowild.com
Glacial retreat
The Jorge Montt Glacier is one of major tidewater glaciers of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field (Campo de Hielo Sur), Chile. This glacier is one of the most rapidly retreating glaciers in the world, losing around 24 km in length since 1898, much of it beginning in the 1990s with climate change (Journal of Glaciology, v 65 #263, 2019). The fractured face of the glacier is evidence of its instability, as is the large amount of brash ice around the face. Getting near the face on this rainy day required a lot of manoevering in a zodiac through the ice that had a consistency of a giant slushy. The dark area to the left is a patch of highly compressed old black ice.
18/04/2021 www.allenfotowild.com