This Glacier’s Vanishing Act Is Beautifully Heartbreaking

The next time-lapse video was combined by Extreme Ice SurveyJames BalogChasing Ice

Since installing a camera during Mendenhall in 2007, Extreme Ice Survey says a glacier has retreated some-more than 1,830 feet — about one-third of a mile. Its abnormally quick shelter and deflation shows a effects of meridian change in action, according to Extreme Ice Survey. 

“Once issuing proudly opposite Mendenhall Lake, a glacier now takes a tiny square of lake front real-estate

Mendenhall Glacier, located outward of Juneau, stretches for 12 miles and is home to some otherworldly ice caves

Watch next for a time-lapse video of Mendenhall Glacier’s retreat:

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