Rivers of Ice
| Rivers of Ice is a helicopter adventure over Mount Olympus, just west of Seattle, floating over the gorgeous blue glaciers and frozen rivers. “Floating in a helicopter looking down into those crevices, it’s the ultimate vantage point because you get to see it from an angle that you and I never get to see. It actually snows 100 feet a year around Mt. Olympus. But just 40 miles away in Port Angeles, its only 25 inches a year. So it creates what’s called a rain shadow and that’s incredible. Glaciers are actually rivers of ice and if I had a time lapse camera that I could leave on the mountain top for three years in a row, you would actually see it move.” -Louie Schwartzberg
filmmaker |
Olympic Peninsula, WA | 1996 |
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