{"id":35440,"date":"2013-03-31T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=35440"},"modified":"2013-03-31T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T21:06:43","slug":"chasing-ice-insanely-ridiculously-beautiful-cavings-cliffs-and-mountains-of-ice-and-life-with-james-balog-read-more-at-httpcleantechnica-comp50117d8sey2mk9i0x5ueg-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/chasing-ice-insanely-ridiculously-beautiful-cavings-cliffs-and-mountains-of-ice-and-life-with-james-balog-read-more-at-httpcleantechnica-comp50117d8sey2mk9i0x5ueg-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Ice — \u201cInsanely, Ridiculously Beautiful\u201d Cavings, Cliffs, & Mountains Of Ice & Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"james<\/a>“I am going out on this broken fin, and I assume it won’t collapse” — so says James Balog as he slides over to the edge of an endless cliff of ice that would make many feel faint simply to observe. Balog is nothing if not obsessive — however, brilliantly so. Needing his third knee surgery, he travels where the tough can scarcely be found in order to capture the cavings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jeff Orlowski, the film’s director and producer, fills the screen with Balog and the 300- to 400-feet tall, rivetingly, incredible movements of the cavings of snow and ice in Iceland, Greenland, and other places. Imagine a snow and ice world the size of the lower tip of Manhattan collapsing in front of you, except that the size of the cavings is 3 to 4 times as tall as the buildings in Manhattan\u2026 Incredible. Horrible. Beautiful. Powerful.<\/p>\n