Iceland 2017 In 2016, I got sick with Lyme Disease and spent a lot of time at home in bed. During that period, I was able to watch a plethora of nature documentaries including Chasing Ice, a documentary about climate change and glacier calving by Jeff Orlowski. The documentarians traveled to Alaska, Greenland and Iceland to capture this imagery. After viewing this, I decided that it was wildly important for me to be on a glacier before they were all gone. A few months after putting the idea in my Dad’s head, he caved and we booked tickets for the end of January, 2017. The experience was nothing short of magical. The landscape was absolutely spectacular and I could not have been happier with the things that we saw on that trip. We swam in a geothermal pool, walked behind an incredible waterfall (which was the first time I had ever done that), watched the Aurora Borealis from the Glacier Lagoon, and even ate lunch inside a glacier. My trip to Iceland was full of firsts for me and nothing short of absolutely amazing. However, in the middle of winter, the weather was mild and rainy and the original ice cave we were supposed to venture into had collapsed a few days prior to our trip and they had to go with a backup. The effects of climate change are taking hold and you may not be experiencing much change where you are, but closer to the poles, the change is drastic and only getting worse.
