Chasing Ice

00:00:45 ABC NEWS ANCHOR (VO): It's hard not to be impressed

00:02:42 SVAV JONATANSSON: He pushes it-- he's looking for something.

00:05:51 that you're not accustomed to looking at em.

00:08:13 that you could see features this big disappearing

00:11:06 but I talked him into me coming up here and having a look.

00:13:39 This thing is loose.

00:17:13 And about 300 feet above the surface of the water.

00:21:52 And the story that the glaciers were telling.

00:24:28 The plants that clean our air?

00:26:53 until you found a dentist that said

00:30:25 in the past 24 hours which is somewhat weird.

00:33:28 we realized that the core problem was

00:37:16 That vertical change is the height

00:40:44 You see, all this water, melting

00:43:18 Just be careful, don't get too close to the edge, alright?

00:46:08 JAMES BALOG (CONT'D): Okay.

00:49:28 You know we, uh...

00:52:50 SVAV JONATANSSON: The sandwiches are better here.

00:55:51 And wait. We're going to try to catch some...

00:58:40 And without further adieu

01:01:29 So that's where we started three years ago way out on the left

01:04:03 on one of our regular check-ins, Jim, just, nothing's happening.

01:08:09 That's a magical, miraculous, horrible, scary thing.

100:00:00 dying in front of my eyes