One hundred years after the Duke of the Abruzzi’s scientific expedition to the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram, a team of scientists and photographers led by alpinist and photographer Fabiano Ventura retraces his route. Their mission is to document climate-change impacts by creating a record of the glacier’s transformation. By comparing photographs by Vittorio Sella and Massimo Terzano with new images, field observations, and laboratory analyses, the project highlights cryosphere change and glaciers as indicators.
After the successful expedition to Karakorum and the Baltoro glacier, photographer Fabiano Ventura and his team of experts continue their mission to study the effects of climate change on the world’s largest glaciers. Their latest expedition takes them to the Georgian Caucasus, an area of incomparable beauty rendered inaccessible for decades by the Soviet regime and thus still unspoiled and timeless. For the first time, photographic evidence gathered by the explorers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century is compared with the same shots taken by Fabiano Ventura, then scientifically analysed to determine the "health" of some of the largest glaciers in the world.
After the successful expedition to Karakorum and to Caucasus, photographer Fabiano Ventura and his team of experts continue their mission to study the effects of climate change on the world’s largest glaciers. Their next expedition will take them to Alaska. Thanks to the cold weather and the frequent precipitations, glaciers are found in Alaska at low altitudes; they pass through the long valleys and merge just before they arrive at the sea. Their particular characteristics make Alaska’s glaciers very interesting from a scientific point of view. Once again, in this documentary, photographic evidence gathered by explorers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century is compared with the same shots taken by Fabiano Ventura. These are then scientifically analysed to determine the "health" of some of the largest glaciers in the world.
One hundred years after the Duke of the Abruzzi’s scientific expedition to the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram, a team of scientists and photographers led by alpinist and photographer Fabiano Ventura retraces his route. Their mission is to document climate-change impacts by creating a record of the glacier’s transformation. By comparing photographs by Vittorio Sella and Massimo Terzano with new images, field observations, and laboratory analyses, the project highlights cryosphere change and glaciers as indicators.
After the successful expedition to Karakorum and the Baltoro glacier, photographer Fabiano Ventura and his team of experts continue their mission to study the effects of climate change on the world’s largest glaciers. Their latest expedition takes them to the Georgian Caucasus, an area of incomparable beauty rendered inaccessible for decades by the Soviet regime and thus still unspoiled and timeless. For the first time, photographic evidence gathered by the explorers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century is compared with the same shots taken by Fabiano Ventura, then scientifically analysed to determine the "health" of some of the largest glaciers in the world.
After the successful expedition to Karakorum and to Caucasus, photographer Fabiano Ventura and his team of experts continue their mission to study the effects of climate change on the world’s largest glaciers. Their next expedition will take them to Alaska. Thanks to the cold weather and the frequent precipitations, glaciers are found in Alaska at low altitudes; they pass through the long valleys and merge just before they arrive at the sea. Their particular characteristics make Alaska’s glaciers very interesting from a scientific point of view. Once again, in this documentary, photographic evidence gathered by explorers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century is compared with the same shots taken by Fabiano Ventura. These are then scientifically analysed to determine the "health" of some of the largest glaciers in the world.