Alaskan Glacier calving Columbia with Epic 200 foot high “shooter” and Valdez glacier blue pools

[@cherylvergin1757]

One of the most beautiful things about nature is the absence of man-made noise.

[@technodruid]

Yeah theres nothing like the sounds of the wild northern royalty free orchestras

[@robroberts9051]

@@technodruid lol

[@brt-jn7kg]

Couldn't say it any better

[@AmicusAdastra]

but it happened because of man made stuffs

[@joeysplats3209]

Man is part of nature.

[@suzannedavies2480]

The sounds of nature are all that’s needed to go with this amazing spectacle! Not dramatic music that takes away from the awesomeness of the glacier calving! Good footage but music spoiled it for me sorry!omg! That shooter was unreal! It was gargantuan, it looked like something from a movie but real- omg!😱🤩🤗🤗🤗

[@liannislam9006]

The music is cool sound effect

[@fzth-t7s]

@@liannislam9006 The music is shit

[@theremedialset]

Absolutely. I really wish people wouldn't put stock music over otherwise impressive footage. It invariably cheapens it.

[@tonyblackie3277]

No-one notices the blasphemy and language?

[@horsthorst11]

@@tonyblackie3277 Oh my f‘ing god, what are you talking about? God doesn‘t exist so there‘s no blasphemy lol

[@libenasukro]

Unfortunate that people filming historical events cannot remain quiet. That can never be fixed, but the music mistake can be. Nature has the perfect soundtrack and that's what is needed here.

[@skeater3662]

Libena Starikova nature should be experienced like an epic Jerry Bruckheimer film👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@libenasukro]

@@skeater3662 Thank you for a good laugh. Good comment.

[@PurringMyrrh]

Boo hoooooooooo🤦‍♀️

[@libenasukro]

@@PurringMyrrh Why the sad tears?

[@bobbybushwhacker]

This is a selfish thought, if you happened to be in a rare moment like this, your gonna take it in and maybe make some noise, they didn't go out there to film it for you

[@carefulpilgrim]

just remarkable. Didn't need sound effects

[@sharonhoare5790]

Music is not needed. It would be better to use the sound of the ice breaking or even silence.

[@gioen59]

Absolutely right! Breathtaking anyway

[@ShellyAnn1a]

Saw a clip of this, believe me you would not want the sound, the music is a lot better than all of those immature screams an d yells.

[@sharonhoare5790]

Lloyd Christmas I was not whinging just voicing my personal opinion.

[@oversizedhauling3108]

Yeah well silence is god damn boring. And obviously the creator agrees that music is better soo go find a creator that makes silent videos and go watch them cause a lot of us like the music rather then silence

[@JaneDoe6000]

@Ezikeal ...YOU have control of that... ;)

[@jellis270]

Seeing those glaciers and the magnitude of them fills me with a newfound sense of appreciation and total awe for the one who made all things, YHWH!!

[@nitaleach6816]

I had the honor to visit your beautiful State and see the Glacier. It took my breathe away. I was kust sorry I didn't get to see the Northern lites, and the many many other we orders your State has to offer. Thank you fir sharing.

[@barbarap8602]

Music is REALLY ANNOYING, but that Shooter was AMAZING.😲

[@chumleyk]

OOOH H MYYY GAAWWWDDDDD SHSHIITITIT OHH MY YGOOWWOASNSNSDD OOWIJWOIJEWO"IJRO"WEIJHOEHFN shut up yankees

[@najrenchelf2751]

Actually, given that they could have chosen any music (I once saw this type of video with dubstep music!?!?!) I don’t mind this decision...

[@OMNIVERSAL777]

Not surprised to hear that coming from a sheep manipulated by movies and video games..

[@charlieross-BRM]

It sounds like a B movie Viking saga from the 1960's or, a Facebook ad about some employee who quit his job to manufacture a gizmo the "rest of the industry tried to hide from consumers".

[@fib7615]

@@OMNIVERSAL777 tf does this have to do with video games? Lmao stop trying to create pointless arguments

[@topvideos-213]

I thought it was clickbait turned out even better that shooter was massive😱😱 Because of this video I learned what a shooter is👍

[@sugarysnax2958]

I think it'd be better without music too or at least an option to turn off music because I like to hear what's going on rather than some pounding drum. The spectacle is spectacular all on it's own. The music just makes it so you can't hear what's happening.

[@GDaddyTx]

Awesome video, perfect timing catching that shooter, wow!!! Thx for sharing!!!

[@sharonmonios6677]

I’m going on a cruise to Alaska. Can’t wait

[@billybud9557]

That is stunning! Have never seen a glacier calving that was so impressive. thanks.

[@UKOnation]

Wow, what a great moment you where able to watch. You really had big, big luck.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

Now THAT gave me goosebumps. Amazing footage. Loved it. Thanks for sharing it.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

And I thought the music was great; it was uplifting and inspiring, just like nature can be sometimes.

[@lovejago]

WOW!! life on this Planit is a gift from GOD. No doubt about it!

[@Rich-yj4ub]

The shooter was amazing! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@matycee]

one of the BEST exclamations of "holy shit!" i think i've ever heard.... and then the uncontrollable giggling at the end, just priceless. Lucky sob ya

[@maggiemae6867]

ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL. you are so lucky. Just an AWE moment.

[@davedbaveda]

My guess is the music is there to down out all the "oh my gawd" background screahing

[@fyrhead1978]

damn right

[@Gk2003m]

Gawd had nothing to do with it

[@certaindiaster59]

It may have drowned out the commotion on the boat but it had no effect on my “oh my gawd”!🤯

[@Mili-bedili]

@@josephastier7421 The hell does this have to do with customs in the USA?! 🤣

[@josephastier7421]

@@Mili-bedili I really don't God-damn know. Commet deleted.

[@mrdirtbag49]

Could definitely have done without the soundtrack. For people who have never seen this before it would be cool to hear with the cracking and the sounds are associated with iceberg collapse and calving are like..

[@vanillagorilla8438]

Talk about a Kodak moment, great footage, thank for sharing... 👍😁

[@J_LorraineK]

Gorgeous, amazing footage, even a year later. Thank you for sharing.

[@RealPeterGunn]

What a GREAT video!! Thank You!!!

[@esmeesme7666]

One of the best sightings!

[@candaceroberts3238]

Spectacular, the shooter was spine tingling. I’ve only seen one other. Beautifully done.

[@rwilson9574]

If you do another video like this please no music

[@danelda47]

R Wilson... We agree with you... Plus anyone that keeps yelling OMG OMG, Holy Sh!t again and again! So pleasing to the ears... NOT!

[@yonatanschlussel]

I don't see what the problem is and it's their trip Let them enjoy it

[@Tenorgeiger]

Just turn the sound off if you don’t like it. Not difficult!

[@jasondavis2995]

So what happens when all of this ice is gone?

[@robertrockwell7581]

@@jasondavis2995 it will take a thousand years for the ice too be gone. long after we are not here. unless you believe in global warming. which i do not.

[@barbkugler7568]

Cruised to Alaska many times and never saw anything like this. Thank you for the great video.

[@DaveTheTurd]

That was incredible. I can't imagine seeing that in person. I've been watching these glacier calving vids for years, I don't think I've seen anything quite like it.

[@certaindiaster59]

I’m speechless! That has officially become one of the top 5 most amazing things I’ve seen in a video! Another top 5 video is another glacier calving event, I can’t recall the name of the glacier but the footage is from a documentary about glacier calving and global warming called “Chasing Ice”. It was the biggest calving event ever filmed. If you haven’t already, check it out, and I assure you will not be disappointed!👍

[@VHKDK]

A wonderful video, thanks for showing.

[@wendydebois1685]

HOLY SHIT! That was the absolute best shooter I have EVER seen!!

[@skeater3662]

Oh! Cool!! We talked to the helicopter tour pilots and this was the best they have seen also! Are you an Alaskan native?

[@wendydebois1685]

@@skeater3662 hi, sorry, i just now saw your coment, lm from Bothell Washinton. But ya, this is a great video! That was so cool to see that shooter get so high! So amazing!!

[@RodCalidge]

Amazing. Absolutely breath taking. Thank you for sharing. God bless.

[@josephastier7421]

Lose the tunes, let nature speak for herself. Nice catch of a rare event!

[@indigenousaquarian3112]

KZbin idiots can't help themselves! Always putting shitty music to their video's!

[@ChideNorms]

The tunes were awesome

[@ChideNorms]

@@indigenousaquarian3112 shitty music? Sorry it’s not hip hop nigga

[@allencar5212]

If you can hear the event before it is finished falling; you are way too close!! So the music filled in for the silence while the ice was falling.

[@josephastier7421]

@@allencar5212 That silence is part of Nature's show.

[@BrianAchterberg928]

Good old Mom Nature sure can give us a beautiful show now and then.

[@ralphreinhardt6020]

That shooter was awesome !! I've never seen anything like it in my life ! 😃👍

[@darrellcook8253]

Honestly I expected a giant ice monster birth or suddenly been freed from frozen containment ice lizard to go on the attack. 200 foot high ice monster has a hard time keeping it together. As we see here.

[@TheFredismShow]

The best. The shooter thing is unbelievable.

[@sherrysweetman4100]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

[@floydriebe4755]

absolutely spectacular footage! nuff said

[@ghostlydemonhunter5378]

3:40 in. You can thank me later 😂

[@moblieplayer3226]

HOLY thx JEEZ

[@karenacton3854]

It’s later.....I had my breakfast.....watched the footage at ideal spot.....thank you!

[@bigmoncrief6071]

Yes, thanks. Not sure I could put up with that God awful music for more than 30 seconds.

[@peatier7626]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3XYYXypqdJshrc

[@kaios8231]

A shot from the small ship would have been better.

[@tiddlesa.6125]

Wow the whole video was impressive! Thank you.

[@DieFlabbergast]

How did they get a whole orchestra, including massive percussion section, into a helicopter?!

[@darrellcook8253]

I don't know but I wish they dumped them out the door. Be gone bad noises! A A A Clang splat splat.

[@branonjohnson8617]

Thats super cool! You guys are pretty lucky to experience that!

[@leemoore9867]

That's beautiful! I need to get out and experience things like this!

[@carolisaac5459]

Maybe you need to appreciate being a good steward and not do more harm by tourism.

[@Learned_Duvel]

@@carolisaac5459 man shut yo ass up.

[@supervidere7]

Amazing music.I always wonder if the people on those boats are crying when they watch the ice fall. 'Cause they all look super stoked to me.

[@ivymoon1779]

Dang it. I'd rather have the natural sound

[@leoniemillerl4487]

Wonder how old that ice was? Amazing footage of that shooter. Biggest I’ve ever seen on KZbin.

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

A couple decades old. It only slides around twenty five miles through the valley.

[@darrellcook8253]

It's the biggest I've seen too. So far. Biggly yuge. Large. BIG! I love it. Not because of the melting disaster but for the lesson to look at the cause of the disaster. With a little bit of CGI it could be morphed into the birth of a giant ice monster. Cool eh?

[@hawaiinrainbow]

Was like watching some special effect in a movie with some ice creature about to break free. Spectacular!

[@fblazquezgil]

Who gives a f for tha glaciers, I came here for Hans Zimmer 😎😂😂😂😂😂

[@savedtwice7925]

Very nice footage here ... WELL DONE ! Nature at it's finest . It's to bad that one can never actually hear what the true sound of a calving glacier is because It's muted by the sounds of idiots screaming cheering whistling like they're at a concert , or in this case music . Some people need to figure out what the true meaning of '' SHUT UP AND LISTEN '' means . The sound a calving glacier makes it absolutely amazing . Try zipping it ..... You just might hear it .........

[@darrellcook8253]

Yup. Distractions and noise doesn't help either. I wanna hear what nature is sounding like now.

[@Learned_Duvel]

It’s an echoing crack, followed by silence and then a rush of water as it plummets into the depths

[@rickomoi4441]

😃😀Amazing, 😯😲the power of nature, it's a good shot very quality👍👍👏. very thanks 🤗

[@JasonWh]

Great catch.

[@monaslavens4584]

That was awesome!

[@troyottosen8722]

I agree about that being the most incredible shooter I have seen, for those of you not familiar with tidewater glaciers,a shooter is when the face is also breaking off beneath the waterline. I have a guide on glacier trips in southeast Alaska and seen some awesome calving, this amount of calving and the sheer size is the best I have seen, and I have seen incredible calving in Tracy arm with south sawyer and endicott glacier! For people seeing this from outside of Alaska it’s hard for you to realize the size and magnitude of this! I guarantee that boat was at least a minimum 1/4 mile away, probably farther, incredible footage!!!

[@certaindiaster59]

If people can’t figure out what the shooter was in this video, they should probably stop watching videos on KZbin and go back to licking windows!🤨

[@jeanrobinson705]

I love the way the little boat hurries away to hide behind the bigger boat!

[@troyottosen8722]

@@certaindiaster59 So true! Our next generation is so braindead!🤪

[@janitorizamped]

​@@troyottosen8722this is hilarious coming from someone who didn't even understand the original comment lmao

[@CallmeSam00]

it all fits together. The screaming cameraman, the cropped video and the music. Your content quality is perfectly consistent.

[@curtyuiop]

Thank you for having no music at the best part!!

[@cathybenson5119]

Pity it couldn't be said about the noisy people

[@bitsaurus]

Too bad we had to listen to an idiot.

[@bhpictures]

03:35 The good part. And oh is it good! Freaking amazing sight. I love Alaska. I think every American should go there at least once.

[@rwilson9574]

Amazing video, thanks

[@kennethreister7619]

I visited the glacier in 1982 aboard my 30' sail boat. At that time the Glacier was not white and blue. There was a lot of rock and fragments on top of the ice. So it all appeared rather brown. Great Capture of the action!

[@ut000bs]

The glacier face was melting then.

[@daniellitvinenko3478]

Awesome 👏 footage

[@TheFredismShow]

That calving was crazy!

[@larrysorenson4789]

Thank you for posting.

[@glennstewart3920]

If a glacier is calving it is because the ice above is forcing the glacier down the mountain. It means a healthy glacier, not retreating. M ore snow on top, more calving.

[@erikarneberg11]

So temperature has nothing to do with it? 🤔

[@RickyGuterson]

@@erikarneberg11 No. Not when the frigging SUN is in a grand solar minimum. Now STFU with your man made climate change horseshit and enjoy the video..

[@erikarneberg11]

@@RickyGuterson Oh, sorry- you must live somewhere where ice doesn’t melt at zero degrees centigrade or above… 😂

[@FantsyPants]

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

[@VictorHugo-sf1dh]

Music? Rather listening natured sounds of ice berg falling into the ocean and that is all about video recording.....

[@verenasteiner5220]

Unheimlich und doch Wunderschön diese Natur.Danke für die Tollen Aufnahmen. Eure Verena Steiner aus der Schweiz 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭😍😍😍🌹🐞🐞🐞

[@lindaj5492]

4:05 that little boat took his time getting out of there!

[@thomasewing2656]

Wish we stayed to see the waves reach the camera location. Great video.

[@brt-jn7kg]

This is literally on my bucket list along with panning gold and seeing the Northern lights.

[@kevg3320]

Today, so many bland, mundane things are "Awesome!", however, that 200ft Shooter is actually, umm..... AWESOME!!!

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

Unfortunately, so many things were once called awesome that AWESOME became statistically average... This does raise the bar.

[@1airdrummer]

Ive seen a lot of these vids. You win! That was incredible.

[@brianmck7363]

Silence is GOLDEN

[@skeater3662]

Brian McK thank god this video has all the colors of the rainbow!! 🌈 🌈 🌈 gold sucks by itself.

[@FosterScott]

Imagine the exhilaration of being able to ride a shooter. Better than any roller coaster in the world.

[@architectinth]

Skip to 3:23. You're welcome. Epic. Never seen anything like that before. I wish I was there.

[@StoryfulNews]

Hi Adam, I am with Storyful News agency, great video! Did you take this video? If so, would it be OK to share with our news partners? You would be credited per storyful.com/clearance. Thanks!

[@ghostlydemonhunter5378]

What a beautiful landscape. This world really is a wonderful place.

[@cringeuser5123]

Good thing we have video to see it since it is all going to melt away within a few decades.

[@dannymanny6917]

I'm glad you feel like that. There are some who don't but who cares.

[@dannymanny6917]

@@cringeuser5123 I can't imagine it's going to stop snowing in the upper regions, opinions vary.

[@ghostlydemonhunter5378]

@@dannymanny6917 yeah. It’s an amazing World mate really. Fill off shit but still amazing we are here to start with lol

[@ghostlydemonhunter5378]

@@cringeuser5123 lol so they say friend. But it’s been melting for years and believe it or not it’s happened before. Just not for a long time. We will be ok though. We are smarting than the average bear 🐻 😂

[@AtLeastA.C-plus]

With this footage, I can truly hear the ancient song of the glaciers 💖

[@charlesbehlen6225]

I agree with the other commenters: NO MUSIC. Notice how much more interesting the video becomes when you get to hear the exclamations of the spectators.

[@HugeInsect]

Yeah right. Imagine being here, a pretty amazing, once in a lifetime spectacle, and the guy beside you with absolutely nothing to say won't just shut the fuck up and watch what is happening.

[@seanriopel3132]

Feels like I'm watching pirates of the Caribbean.

[@rogerdudra178]

The blue spots are cool looking.

[@mrose4132]

Good music....im a little disappointed we didn’t get to see the waves off that monster!! But that’s just my taste. Cool video!!!!

[@troyottosen8722]

M Roseman41 , the waves from calving are usually “surge” waves, more of a building wave, by the time they get to closer to the boats in the distance they have flattened more out, most of these boats stay approx 1/4 mile away from the face for safety reasons! You don’t want to be too close when a massive piece breaks off!

[@boomerrob9223]

Has anybody mentioned the music?

[@wanderingangelstudio1359]

Great video but I agree with everyone else. The music isn't necessary.

[@ryanhruska6667]

Damn, imagine being under that thing 😲😲 totally awesome 👍

[@darrellcook8253]

And suddenly you're on top and you're FREE! Free to destroy everything! ARGGGHH! 90 minutes of people screaming then 20 minutes of dark shadows muttering incomprehensible babble. It would make millions. Oh yeah, ..where am I?

[@kevinkennedy3042]

It was beautiful. I still don't get why people keep freaking out that the ice sheets are melting. They've been melting for over 35,000 years now. Ever since the end of the last ice age. How else do you think the great lakes were formed? It is a natural progression of life on this planet. Things are created and things are destroyed. Life comes and life goes. The earth heats up and the earth cools down It has been going on ever since the world has existed. And will continue until the world is no more.

[@oldineamiller9007]

One more time for the slow learners. Calving has absolutely nothing to do with melting. It happens when the glaciers grow. Got that now?

[@roylavecchia1436]

@@oldineamiller9007 The OP was referring to the fact that many people talk about the melting of the ice sheets and retreating glaciers as some sort of man-made problem, when in actuality it has been going on for hundreds of millions of years. It is a fact that many glaciers are retreating (due to melting), so your premise that calving only occurs when glaciers are growing is false. Do some research.

[@oldineamiller9007]

@@roylavecchia1436 Maybe you need to do some research. Glaciers only calve when they grow. In order to do so, weight in form of snowfalls in the upper part of the glacier is needed. Without these snowfalls the glacier comes to a halt and no calving occours. For these snowfalls it must be cold enough. So your melting story is a fairy tale. We are in a cooling period since 2003. Hence why the arctic ice shield is not melting but growing again since 2012. Maybe you need to check out the Interactive Arctic Snow Ice Graph on the NSIDC webpages for that. Moreover there is another hick in the original post. He wrote about the "last Ice age". That's a common misconception. We are actually in middle of an ice age since 26 million years already. But within this ice age we are in a so called "interglacial". That's a warm period within an ice age. What he means is probably not the last ice age but the last glacial period, which ended 9'500 years ago. Or he means the "Little Ice Age", which is just called so and has nothing to do with an actual ice age. The scientific name of that is the Maunder Minumum. Besides: Per definition an ice age is the time when at least one of the poles has an ice cap.

[@royschmidt675]

Excellent ! Thanks much !❤️

[@drummerdaveshouse5848]

Agreed, cut the music and get live audio feed on the glaciers.

[@Puschit1]

You'd still hear all those "oh my gawd"s even louder ...

[@BlackOps-Ent]

gotta admit, THAT! was bad ass... Once in a milly

[@ronanzann4851]

Anyone replacing the natural sound of glacial calving with music, (or anything else for that matter), must have an I.Q. reaching into negative numbers.

[@evabalga6133]

The music only emphasized the magnificent show. I think it was well chosen.

[@catrowe1091]

That was awesome timing on being there, congrats on that👍 saddening, but never the less amazing to see. Thanks

[@seanmanwill2002]

Incredible!👏👏👏

[@AdamBorseti]

*It looks like the glacier is giving you the finger!*

[@JackDManheim]

Yeah, the glacier didn't like the music either.

[@revellanotvanella]

Skeat Skeat lol

[@lesliemergenthal75]

I agree the music makes it hokey. I was about to click out but 3:34 caught me by surprise. Huge shooter.

[@calvinfarrow5885]

If it's been retreating then how is it still making huge icebergs??? Plain to see it's not retreating. Jist as the ines in glacier national park. Where they had to remove the signs that they had saying they would be gone by 2020. Great shooting though! Awesome video.

[@panam4974]

Great video; thanks!

[@frederickthompson2697]

Wonderful videos, but....Mother Nature's spectacular events are not improved by adding music. The screaming and profanity only diminishes the wonder of it all. Even so, I have to say thanks for sharing... F.

[@PENFOLD1962]

How old approximately are the magnificent beast's?

[@Αντουαν264]

The footage is amazing nice work brother but the music!!!!

[@oversizedhauling3108]

Αντουαν 264 turn your volume down if you don’t like it maybe ??????

[@zanhari1]

Also it's meant to be exciting, hence the exciting music. . . .

[@JackDManheim]

@@oversizedhauling3108 people want to hear the ice cracking

[@sharonmonios6677]

Can’t wait to fly over this in august!

[@Scaw]

The banging strident "music" is completely inappropriate. Thumbs down.

[@mudgepacker7600]

You're a gargantuan pussy

[@skeater3662]

Fredobel51 this music matched the video with perfection! Not sure why you don’t like it.

[@micahy.6190]

@@skeater3662 Maybe quieter music or the raw footage after or in a side video. Great footage! But it's pretty distracting, ngl.

[@cass276]

@@skeater3662 No it didn't, it was over dramatised and masked the natural sounds of the glacier...you don't need to put music to everything. Let your video speak for itself.

[@bkbland1626]

@@skeater3662 Opinion call. I personally agree that music in this instance just distracts. It's just unnecessary. Have a nice day, eh?

[@reho7387]

How cool was that...👍💥😀

[@donmackay9315]

Being quiet for “too long” is a good thing. I would be happy to see calving stop everywhere for for reasons that speak of prolonging the glaciers existence.

[@TecraX2]

You mean that you want a new ice age?!?

[@someguy5035]

This has happened every year for millennia. On the day Al Gore was born, there were 130K glaciers. Today, only 130K remain. Turn off your TV.