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'Chunks of ice float in milky blue waters. Clouds drift and hide imposing
mountaintops. The closer you descend to the surface, the more the water roars —
and the louder the crack of ice, as pieces fall from the arm of Europe's
largest glacier.
The landscape is vast, elemental, seemingly far beyond human scale.
The whole world, it seems, lies sprawled out before you.
Against this outsized backdrop, the plane carrying the man who chases glaciers
seems almost like a toy.
"No-one's there," the man marvels. "The air is virtually empty."
This is Garrett Fisher's playground — and, you quickly realise, his life's
work.
He is travelling the world, watching it from far above, sitting in the seat of
his tiny blue-white Super Cub aircraft.
It is here that he combines his two longtime passions — photography and flight
— in a quest to document every remaining glacier on the face of the Earth.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
