Extreme Ice

Alaska, Iceland, Norway, South America, Antarctica... all over the globe, in each of the places we have been to over the past years the story is the same... glacial ice is melting at an ever increasing pace. In Alaska, eight times faster than just 30 years ago.
Now from 50 to 130 feet a day, it's receding, and it's not being replenished at anywhere near that speed. Many glaciers will be completely gone in our lifetime, an unthinkable and devastating consequence of climate change.

With the planet's icy regions melting faster than ever, photographer James Balog embarks on a remarkable expedition to trace and record the change.
Extreme Ice Survey is the largest photographic study of the cryosphere ever attempted.

In the extreme, ice-bound regions of the earth, something unprecedented is happening. Everywhere, glaciers and ice sheets have begun breaking apart, and accelerating towards the oceans at alarming speeds. As scientists try to forecast the future consequences of the big melt, internationally acclaimed photographer James Balog is risking everything to capture the phenomena on film.

Deploying 25 time-lapse cameras on glaciers across the Northern Hemisphere, in some of the coldest, most inhospitable places on earth. Teaming up with scientists in the field who are dissecting the complex mechanics of glaciers and ice sheets, Balog probes deep into the underworld of the ice... rappelling down into narrow crevasses and scaling vast ice canyons carved out by raging torrents of melt-water.
Changes in the earth’s geology were once though to take thousands of years to play out, but Balog’s photographs are hard proof that these epochal transformations can happen right before our eyes.

Extreme Ice - (Netflix link)

This is a beautifully shot little film. It tells a chilling tale of what is to come, but it is easy to watch because of the true beauty of the ice.
The film talks 'by the end of the century'... kinda like the way it was once said 'by 2200 or 2300.' Everything has a way of happening oh so much faster, and as the planet heats up with ever increasing temps over longer periods of time... ice keeps disappearing at an ever increasing speed.....

Extreme Ice TV Show - National Geographic