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But this glacier caved into the water and a seal got on it.
Here's a mother and her two year-old cub were traveling on a ship a hundred miles offshore in the middle of nowhere, and they're riding on this big piece of glacier ice, which is great for them; they're safe at this point.
They actually have these buses that drive up and over the lateral moraine and drop people off on the surface of the glacier.
When I meet a glacier for the very first time, what do I do?
This very basic shift in my physical orientation helped me shift my perspective in relation to the glacier.
And once again, it's this invitation that asks people to lay down on the glacier and give it a hug.
So what is a glacier?
When ice packed like that starts to move, we call it a glacier, and we give it a name.
The name of the glacier these caves are formed in is the Sandy Glacier.
Now each year, as new snow lands on the glacier, it melts in the summer sun, and it forms little rivers of water on the flow along the ice, and they start to melt and bore their way down through the glacier, forming big networks of caves, sometimes going all the way down to the underlying bedrock.
Now the crazy thing about glacier caves is that each year, new tunnels form.
But the weirdest thing about glacier caves is that the entire cave is moving, because it's formed inside a block of ice the size of a small city that's slowly sliding down the mountain.
He and I have both been exploring caves a long time and we've been climbing mountains a long time, but neither one of us had ever really explored a glacier cave before.
So in July of that year, we went out on the glacier, and we found a big crack in the ice.
At the end of this hole, we found a huge tunnel going right up the mountain underneath thousands of tons of glacier ice.
Now later this summer, as more snow melted off the glacier, we found more caves, and we realized they were all connected.
There was a huge pit or shaft called a moulin going 130 feet straight up to the surface of the glacier.
The next morning, we climbed out of the cave and hiked all the way to the top of the glacier, where we finally rigged and rappelled this pit for the very first time.
Another really cool things is that, as seeds and birds land on the surface of the glacier and die, they get buried in the snow and gradually become part of the glacier, sinking deeper and deeper into the ice.
This duck died on the surface of the glacier long, long ago, and its feathers have finally made it down through over 100 feet of ice before falling inside the cave.
Yet when I talk to them about my work on carbon capture, I find that they're equally amazed, and that's because combatting climate change by capturing carbon isn't just about saving a polar bear or a glacier.
They’re not at the top of Mount Everest or buried in a glacier.
We traveled up and down one of the largest and most dangerous glaciers in the world, the Beardmore glacier.
On the way back down to the coast, our crampons — they're the spikes on our boots that we have for traveling over this blue ice on the glacier — broke on the top of the Beardmore.
When we got down to the mouth of the glacier, we found fresh snow had obscured the dozens of deep crevasses.
So here I am sitting in front of a 7,000-meter-high, 21,000-foot glacier in Bhutan.
It was a solid glacier.
That destruction was caused by one glacier lake.
It's kind of like an Andean Woodstock: 60,000 Indians on pilgrimage to the end of a dirt road that leads to the sacred valley, called the Sinakara, which is dominated by three tongues of the great glacier.
Just six years ago, we had no idea this glacier aquifer existed.
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