Spending so much time in front on a computer screen can make it easy to forget that we live on such a great, big, fascinating and beautiful planet.
However, when it comes to Mother Nature in all her glory, the internet is pretty good at reminding us that no matter how prepared we think we are for a natural disaster, humans have zero control when it comes to our planet's unpredictable weather.
Believe what you want about climate change, but there is no denying that our world's glacier situation is far from what it used to be. As you can see in this heart-pounding video, glaciers can calve or collapse at any moment with very little warning. Those explorers were lucky they noticed the cracks before the wall of ice plummeted into the icy water, but unlike them, the filmmakers in this next video actually wanted to catch the incredible natural event unfold.
Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski traveled to remote Western Greenland to film the historic breakup of the massive Ilulissat Glacier in May, 2008 for their film Chasing Ice. The result is the following video, which won them an award for Excellence in Cinematography and a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest glacier calving ever filmed.
The video has received nearly 32 million views on YouTube and it's easy to understand why. Even from behind a computer screen, nature has the ability to completely steal my breath away.
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