February 02, 2004
Ashby's dream of flying
Flying above a glacier is an experience I never dreamt would happen to me. And then it did.
As the heli was catapulting itself closer and closer to the massive sheet of ice I could see with
intense clarity the features of HPS 31.
It's mouth was opening into the near frozen sea in the form of a cave the color of blue azur.
She must have been at least 60 meters high and equally deep. From the depths of this blue
abyss came raging water heading straight into the fiord from a source unclear.
It was coming to dusk and the heli was hovering at the entrance while shining lights inside to better
illuminate the intenisity of the blue.
Reflections of the strikingly smooth interior were contrasting completely to the starkly white irregular
ice shelves surrounding the cave. From here we flew up the continuing glacier which was
varying dramatically in and out of pure white ice mounds
and deep unending blue crevasses.
Pressing on up and up and up in the mechanical bird, the white ice became smoother and smoother until a vast part appeared a perfect ski slope. Though, just as my eye was adjusting to finally looking at something recognizable again, nature changed her course. As if needing a breath, a field of jagged bright turquoise spikes forced their way through the previously meandering slope demanding the attention they much deserved. Ouch, I thought as the heli pilot hovered only meters above them for a better look.
And then it was over, all within minutes I was back on the deck of the Arctic Sunrise...thinking, "Will I ever be able to describe that experience with words?"
Ashby
Posted by brianfit at February 2, 2004 03:49 AMWhat an amazing description! Please keep writing, you make the world you are seeing come alive.
Posted by: Danielle at February 2, 2004 11:01 AMBreathtaking Ashby! Thanks for honoring this incredable experience with your words. the descriptions light my imagination and warm my heart. Hope you stay warm too. Peace and Love
Posted by: Lois at February 6, 2004 11:58 PMAshby,
You continue to be my hero!. What a wow of an experience! Here I sit in sunny Florida without an iceberg in sight and there you are.. Thanks for sharing.
Seeing Patagonia through your eyes is thrilling and inspirational! Your action is raising the world's consciousness. There is no work more important or meaningful. Sending prayers and warm thoughts your way.
Posted by: Uncle Jim at February 13, 2004 10:13 AMSeeing Patagonia through your eyes is thrilling and inspirational! Your action is raising the world's consciousness. There is no work more important or meaningful. Sending prayers and warm thoughts your way.
Posted by: Uncle Jim at February 13, 2004 10:13 AMQue jeniales son las proesas que realizan con tanta pación.a ud.ashby por darnos la posibilidad de conocer sus impresiones.porfabor sigan con diferentes misiones ya que si pueden ayudar a mejorar "LA TIERRA".
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Keep the spirits up guys. Corporate criminals need to pay the price.
When ignorance reigns, life is LOST!!
~peace 2 all the activists out there~
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I spent some time in the 70's as a navigating officer on UK Scientific Research Ships including a couple of trips to the Antarctic. It is incredibly beautiful and of course dangerous. Signs of global climate change were already detectable, hence my long term membership of Greenpeace. Capitalism is not the type of economic system to live with when combatting global warming becomes an imperative. Polluters must pay and globally governments must combine to find the means to engineer and force change in the face of the potential catastrophe.
Posted by: peter coombs at February 26, 2004 10:38 AMI spent some time in the 70's as a navigating officer on UK Scientific Research Ships including a couple of trips to the Antarctic. It is incredibly beautiful and of course dangerous. Signs of global climate change were already detectable, hence my long term membership of Greenpeace. Capitalism is not the type of economic system to live with when combatting global warming becomes an imperative. Polluters must pay and globally governments must combine to find the means to engineer and force change in the face of the potential catastrophe.
Posted by: peter coombs at February 26, 2004 10:38 AM