Calving – Perito Moreno Glacier Argentina

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– Perito Moreno Glacier calving – There’s a lot of luck involved waiting to see building size ancient ice break off a glacier. If you do not see it happen, the sound reaches your ears by the time the calving has already taken place. We were at Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina at 8am when the gates opened and spend the best part of 5 hours there.
During this time small pieces of ice broke off, nothing to oooh and aaaah about. Paul from Neake N Paul was observing and quick to say he thinks there is a bigger blue gap forming in the ice.
I quickly set the camera to burst mode and dialed in the settings what I thought would capture such a moment. All of a sudden we could see the blue crack grew wider. 72 photo burst later is what you see in this clip.
We were incredibly lucky to experience such an event.
-Perito Moreno is one of the only glaciers in the world that is growing instead of shrinking. It is 30km in length, 5km wide, 170m thickness and the part above the waterline is about 70m. The glacier covers approx 250 km2
-The glacier was formed during the last ice age, it’s around 18,000 years old. The Southern Patagonian Ice Field covers a whopping 4,800 square miles and is made up by 48 glaciers.
-The glacier was discovered by a captain of the Chilean army Juan Rogers in 1879.