Glacier scientist Timothy Bartholomaus swooped over a world of tortured, stretched ice in mid-June. He’d never seen anything like it.
The footage below, captured aboard a helicopter flying over the Turner Glacier in southeast Alaska, shows recently created ice canyons, caves, and leaning pinnacles. It’s twisted, unsettling, warped ice.
“It’s totally wild to see how torn apart this glacier is,” marveled Bartholomaus, a glaciologist at the University of Idaho who has seen plenty of…