Greenland ice is everywhere. Perched on Ammassalik Island above the Sermilik Fjord the colossal continental glacier of Greenland looms in the distance. Just North of us the Mittivakkat glacier grinds ground into glacial flour. Ice surrounds us. Floating in the fjords. In hanging glaciers. Pure water captured in the ice cap, frozen in the ice sheets. Calving into the North Atlantic from Tidewater Glaciers. Moisture accumulating and trapped as snowfall over the millenniums, it is a reservoir of fresh water. Billions of gallons of fresh water, a reservoir so massive that global seas would rise 6 meters if it were to all melt. It is “10 percent of the total global ice mass”1

The icebergs punctuate the sunsets in the summer. They provide the deepest of blue, ice blue, advertising the purity of the solid water and it’s density caused by centuries of compaction, absorbing all other colors of the spectrum.

1) https://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleice.html