Umiamako Glacier, Greenland
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July 2008
James Balog
Internationally acclaimed photographer James Balog is the founder and director of the Extreme Ice Survey. A former mountain guide with a graduate degree in geomorphology, James is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a whitewater river, the African savannah or polar icecaps. James lives on a Rocky Mountain ridge top high above Boulder, Colorado with his wife Suzanne, and daughters Simone and Emily.
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| We call this one Umi. If you look at the maps and sat photos of the west Greenland fjords, Umiamako is an odd duck, in that it is flowing much, much further down its fjord than any of the surrounding glaciers are flowing down theirs. It has retreated two miles or so since 2000, but there might well be a lot more to go.
I really love the perspective this camera is giving us. It’s on a mountainside that I’ll bet has hardly, if ever, felt a human footstep before ours.
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