Standing in a world of blue, I have never explored an ice cave so grand. I captured this image in the Canadian Rockies in the winter of 2021, only to revisit in the winter of 2022 to a significantly more challenging journey and drastically different cave.
Glaciers are constantly moving and shifting meaning that no two years in one location are ever the same. But in the last year there has been an unprecedented melt due to the continuous rise in temperatures making the trek into these chasms of ice increasingly longer, and more challenging.
Knee deep snow, river crossings and navigation through a maze of bottomless crevasses paired with frigid temperatures, extreme wind gusts, poor visibility and the threat of hypothermia are real.
But these underworlds of thousand year old ice will one day cease to exist. So we push our limits to the extreme knowing that this dangerous, yet enthralling dance with nature takes on as much as a documentative approach as the experience itself.
