RESTLAGER: The film shows in 5'Where does the power of the glacier flow when the ice breaks? (Swiss Press Video 2025, by Fridolin Walcher)

RESTLAGER: The film shows in 5'Where does the power of the glacier flow when the ice breaks?

Bergfahrt Festival Bergün 2024

Video

2025

Fridolin Walcher

The film shows a giant calving event on the Jakobshavn Glacier in West Greenland. With a flow velocity of 40 meters per day, it is the fastest-flowing glacier in the world. The breaking ice is approximately 1,000 meters high, 120 meters of which protrude from the fjord. I spent 10 days bivouacing with four researchers from the University of Zurich, 100 km beyond the last settlement on the edge of the ice sheet.

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Fridolin Walcher / Swiss Press Award

Fridolin Walcher

freischaffender Fotograf, Nidfurn, 1951

"Wir verändern unsere Welt und mit ihr uns selbst." Die Themen meiner Bildergeschichten kreisen seit Jahren um die Veränderungen, die wir uns und unserer Welt zumuten: Gletscherschwund und Eisschmelze in Grönland und hier in den Alpen, aber auch Sozialgeschichten, die durch die Veränderungen hervorgerufen werden.

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RESTLAGER: The film shows in 5'Where does the power of the glacier flow when the ice breaks? (Swiss Press Video 2025, by Fridolin Walcher) - Swiss Press Award