A long awaited moment: our team of 6 students finally get to see the Greenland ice cap with their own eyes. A helicopter transports them and all their gear onto the ice, where they will stay for two weeks to assist scientists in their research. A number of press people are also coming along on this flight to document their arrival. They will return to Ilulissat with the helicopter, but it turns out there’s a small problem...
In the previous two episodes you've seen some beautiful scenery from Greenland. Those images were recorded during the Climate Change College project in 2006, during which 6 students from the UK and the Netherlands visited the Greenland ice cap to be trained as climate change ambassadors.
This is the first of a series of IceScapes RAW episodes, where we will feature some behind the scenes footage from that project. As the title suggests, the style is a bit less polished, but there are a lot of fun and interesting moments that we wanted to share with you, regardless of the visual quality and technical perfection of the imagery. So enjoy this first clip of the students sharing their first impressions of Greenland.
The Ilulissat glacier in Greenland produces around 20 billion tonnes worth of icebergs each year, making it the most productive glacier in the northern hemisphere. In this video we take a short trip trhough the Ilulissat Icefjord and on to nearby Red Bay.
Music in this episode: Revolve (R Mix) by His Boy Elroy. Available on iTunes here.
This time IceScapes.tv brings you a special episode with spectacular scenes from the Ilulissat ice fjord and the Greenland ice cap. These images were filmed during the 2006 Climate Change College, during which 6 students from the UK and the Netherlands ventured into the arctic wilderness to be trained as climate change ambassadors. Based on the experiences and knowledge gathered on several locations in Greenland, they launched various initiatives raising public awareness around the topic of climate change.
In the future we will feature more stories from the Climate Change College. You can read more about the project on www.climatechangecollege.org.
Special thanks to Marc Cornelissen for making this footage available.
Music in this episode: Arcadia by Apparat (Buy on iTunes).
In this episode we visit the remote North-Western part of Greenland, where the 2008 Notice Expedition team arrived three weeks early after their South to North crossing of the ice cap. They had planned to be picked up by boat, but because of their early arrival the fjords are still frozen and the boat won’t be able to reach them. Instead, they will now have to find some things to do for a couple of days while waiting for a helicopter to take them to the town of Qaanaaq.
Music in this episode: The Dream by The Orb (via music.mevio.com), Signs and Vision by Paul Avgerinos (via magnatune.com), Horizons by Tekno Eddy (via ccmixter.org).
14 Jul 2010