Update on Norway glacier

My Norwegian family can be traced back to 1606, but no further because of the Plague. My grandmother, Thea Bolstad, came to America at 16, speaking no English. She was one of 13 children, born into a tiny 2 story home in Hjelle, on Stryn Lake, about 1/3 up the west coast. The family still lives there, under threatening glaciers. I met 135 cousins and visited this glacier for the first time in 2000. I returned in 2007 because my cousin suggested I that I visit the glacier: he didn't think it would last his lifetime.

These photos are posted by a research team, 2001 to 2007, 

the last summer I visited. The researchers had to withdraw 

off the glacier that summer because of the instability.

Briksdalsbreen glacier nearest family home

Researcher's update 2011

My cousin, Reidar Gjorven, just sent this photo, confirming recent status.

More Norway photos, 2007

I spent a year making a body of work to reflect my fascination with glaciers and water.

Between Ice & Stone Exhibition, October 2008

Concurrently, I found a new film on Nova. Photographer James Belog has documented time lapse collapse of glaciers all over the world. The evidence of the rate of acceleration is irrefutable. If man is cause this, and I believe the researchers who say this is so, then we'd better reverse our contributions immediately. Or move to higher ground. Make time for the following video.

New documentary, "Extreme Ice," on Nova- fabulous.