WATCH – Largest Glacier Calving Ever Captured on Film

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On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.

Chasing Ice won the award for Excellence in Cinematography at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and has won 24 awards so far this year. Playing in theaters now. – ChasingIce.com

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Via UnofficialNetworks.com

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8 Responses to WATCH – Largest Glacier Calving Ever Captured on Film

  1. avatar Wm Ho says:
    February 4, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    ….really something to behold and the scale of the whole thing is scary!

  2. avatar Ricardo Moreno says:
    February 5, 2013 at 8:26 am

    What a marvelous and awesome film! Heartiest congratulations.

    Ricardo Moreno

  3. avatar Flaminia Zeman says:
    February 6, 2013 at 1:30 pm

    Frightening

  4. avatar Peter Ulrich says:
    February 6, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    Wow. Just wow.

  5. avatar Jeannie Williams says:
    February 7, 2013 at 2:55 am

    Speechless…

  6. avatar Isabella Camacho says:
    February 9, 2013 at 3:24 am

    Amazing! Wow…..

  7. avatar Domingos Robalo says:
    February 11, 2013 at 11:24 am

    Very nice.

  8. avatar Peggy Alexander says:
    February 16, 2013 at 10:38 am

    Wow , a sight to be seen !