Extreme climate research - On the road in the icefields of Patagonia | DW Documentary

Patagonia's icefields are very difficult to access. As a result, they remain largely unexplored by climate researchers. Now, a scientist and two extreme mountaineers are venturing into this hard-to-reach area, in search of new data for climate research.
Even after 15 years of research in Chile, scientist Tobias Sauter says that for him, many questions remain unanswered. To clarify them, he decides to venture into areas that are difficult to access. The mountaineers Robert Jasper and Jörn Heller agree to help - and put themselves in great danger in the process.
The two icefields in the Patagonian Andes, which stretch across the borders of Chile and Argentina, represent the largest ice mass outside the polar ice caps. However, as a result of climate change, the ice here is losing mass. In some areas, the icefields are losing up to 20 meters in height per year.
Little is known about these dramatic developments and their specific causes. The ice field to the north in particular has so far mainly been studied using satellite-based data. The area’s extreme weather conditions and great remoteness make field research on site a challenge.
Tobias Sauter from Humboldt University in Berlin is one of the few researchers to take on this challenge. He and a small team of German and Chilean researchers have been investigating developments at the southern end of Latin America for years. Until now, the researchers have lacked data and samples from the higher summit regions, which are difficult to access.
With the help of professional mountaineers Robert Jasper and Jörn Heller, Sauter now wants to change this. The two German mountain guides have been searching for new routes and unconquered peaks in the Patagonian Andes for 30 years. The expedition takes the team through magnificent landscapes. It is a battle against the unpredictable weather, but also a test of their own limits. A camera team accompanies the group to one of the most remote areas of our planet.
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Another wonderful documentary shared by 🙏( DW) channel ...video about climate change effects on increasing glacier melting in the ice field of Patagonia. Thank an excellent ( DW) channel

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[@darensavy5014]

The mountaineers are inspirational and want to thank all who keep trying to save our 🌏 ! 💯🙏💪

[@francorivera5308]

wonderful research, here we are the future Nobel Prizes about Climate Changing!! 👏👏👏

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I love all the arctic and climate change documentaries that DW makes! It's so cool getting to see these places like Patagonia, Greenland, etc.

[@SonoraOndaLatinaOficial]

Why did you remove the video about Ecuador?

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[@Spice1_]

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[@simmer2591]

Wow. The views are breathtakingly beautiful.

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Dw always Good

[@musicalhost5755]

Interesting future ahead of us

[@kevinshaw8539]

Really great reporting.

[@SrDazz]

I was there on Gray Glacier last year, it looked HUGE, infinite glacier over the horizon. I had no idea how much bigger it was before.

[@puneetwalia4698]

I salute your team

[@timoooo7320]

I love this narrator's voice 😊

[@EddieDuesentrieb]

Yes to science

[@biswajitnayak5375]

Thank you dw.. ❤

[@jorgecabral7476]

Beautiful Patagonia

[@ABEYMUS76]

Terima kasih kepada para saintis yang sentiasa melakukan kajian tentang perubahan iklim dunia. Tanpa mereka kita diluar ini tidak akan dapat apa maklumat perubahan iklim yang semakin parah

[@seungdaelee8299]

thumbs up to the climbers and scientist. but 2 thumbs up for the camera guy!!

[@andn25]

I want to visit this region so badly!

[@forestfox66]

Can they not send a drone to take samples?

[@j.dunlop8295]

Super dangerous area to hike, storms coming in can and do last for weeks! Viva le mortality!

[@nazuddin6346]

Awesome Guys Its so Worrying humans Destroying the Everything

[@sergejf3742]

I intend to retire to a little slice of paradise near Puerto Guadal and my dream would be to help science with more data about climate change - as well as reforest some of the land there.

[@bhaduanil5644]

Please upload Hindi language version

[@SultanAhmed-xn1wb]

We need a Amzoil clean engine oil

[@Pou1gie1]

@20:30 Marking a rod stuck in the ice with tape and coming back to measure it feels like the least scientific measurement I've ever seen on any science show ever.

[@ignaciot]

Chile 😃

[@Estrella.1402]

❤🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

[@RandomDudeOne]

If you have a fear of heights you might want to skip this video.

[@tahmidhasan8827]

It is depressing, isn't it?

[@senshin7243]

no it's very pleasant to konw the final chapter of human beings

[@crappymeal]

Depressing for us, fairly normal for the planet

[@user-wx2fp9cm3i]

@@senshin7243 like you konw how its gonna be hehe

[@snicker576]

No. That's like..... a lot of ice. Planet's doing fine, people need to stop worrying

[@crappymeal]

@@snicker576 climate change, population decline, endocrine disruptors, obesity epidemic, drug epidemic, mental health epidemic, failing medical, failing infrastructure, financial recession, artificial intelligence, migrant problems and Russia....

[@mickgatz214]

It would be interesting if they would test for how much Nano Plastiic concentraitons there are.... (I know, not the purpose of the climbing mission) 😂

[@Hasnatofficial1]

any uptade of #ai

[@tombolox]

this guys just wanna finace a climbing hobby XD in one day a team in a helicopter can take all the samples..........like meteorologic from Chile do.

[@Law24809905]

Garbage in Garbage out.

[@user-ud1te2ys4n]

氷河を守るには、植林活動に力を入れるべきです‼️

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[@ryanrutledge922]

The one answer I have learned is . . . there is no answer .

[@crappymeal]

Good to see older men still doing the business

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Everything naturally occurring is Nature, which includes plants, microorganisms, humans (all lifeforms), atoms, energy, stars, planets, black holes, cancer, AIDS, space, Dreams, and Consciousness. (Say what!?) Nature is Emergence.

[@Law24809905]

Why just look up at the sun.

[@ashergoney]

Decompression Sickness In On Anyone Else.. Factored In Since 1985 to 31032004 Onwards ..

[@tomhermens7698]

Why didn't they use a helicopter ?

[@misterfunnybones]

Check the per hour Heli rates & you'll have your answer. Unless we can get this sponsored by redbull...

[@ANIMALS_AND_MORE_moments]

Appears to be much too stormy.

[@andres6868]

helicopter from where? do you realize this is an extremely remote place, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement

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[@puneetwalia4698]

Nepal disaster is worst for science

[@skillsforlife668]

We will be more depressed As Ice is Growing on the sheets interglacial periods are good for the humankind 😂

[@reanbelimagtoto2686]

Don't let Chinese to go there, they might claim it as their own!

[@puneetwalia4698]

Kailash Parvati is nobody can rule world

[@misterfunnybones]

Everything on my yacht seems fine...jet skis all ready in the tender garage. AC in the lounge if needed. Fresh drinks at the aft bar...

[@priscilla.colburn444]

I admire people that are adventurous. I am NOT so brave. At the rate of ice melting, it might just expose Noah’s Lost ARK in Turkey. That would make world wide EXCITEMENT.

[@scrollop]

How would ice melting do that exactly?

[@snicker576]

Enough about the stupid climate already 😵‍💫 So burned out

[@slaapkonijn58]

It will only get worse

[@misterfunnybones]

Your "burning" out is clearly adding to the general trend of shorter winters & longer summers. 😂

[@snicker576]

@@misterfunnybones Sounds fine to me bro. Is that really what everyone is so mad about?

[@i.k.8868]

This research should be conducted by local people. There is no justification for "researchers" to fly around the world every year just to take some pictures and measurements.

[@misterfunnybones]

Cancel all leisure travel & tourism.

[@i.k.8868]

​@@misterfunnybones In the past 10 years I have only been on holiday once. I don't think everyone should live as I do, but I do support restricting air travel as much as possible.

[@mh8704]

“Just “? Wow but they are doing a tremendous thing for the sake of humanity and the planet. What have you done for the good of the planet?

[@i.k.8868]

​@@mh8704 Can you read? I just told you I almost never go on holiday. I don't fly. I don't eat meat. I don't buy new clothes. I insulate homes for a living. What do you know about my lifestyle??

[@Betweoxwitegan]

​@@i.k.8868What's wrong with them travelling to a glacier to better track climate patterns and glacial melting? Their research offsets carbon emissions.

[@GregHalvorson]

Fossil fuels are a huge blessing to mankind.

[@misterfunnybones]

Wasted in a mass frenzy of F350 commuting.

[@marickshorts]

What a load of bs.

[@frederikallard1386]

Living in denial aren't you.

[@misterfunnybones]

If it gets cold anywhere, then the comment section denies shorter winters, longer summers, & warmer average temperatures. Cognitive dissonance & wilful blindness are coping mechanisms.

[@BinaryBlueBull]

​@@misterfunnybones Precisely. One of the comments above basically says: "I can see lots of ice in this video, therefore the climate is fine". I don't think there's much reasoning to be had with people like that. In general, someone who thinks they know better than thousands of experts worldwide who have dedicated their lives to a profoundly complex subject matter and have reached international acclaim in their field, based on nothing more than "I can't see it, therefore it isn't real", is not likely to be someone able to be swayed by facts-based counterarguments. Not that we shouldn't try, mind you, but I don't think we should waste too much energy on it when that can be used to meaningfully contribute to other, more meaningful debates and movements. I commend you for trying to engage anyway, I have done the same numerous times but after many years I have all but given up, so I know how tedious (and in my case sometimes infuriating) it can get

[@misterfunnybones]

@@BinaryBlueBull I'm always baffled by the self-fulfilling prophesy argument: someone is polluting more than you, & there's nothing that you can do about it, so keep polluting at your present rate. That's like saying there's someone doing 50km/h over the speed limit, so it's ok if I stay at my present speed of 40 km/h over the speed limit!?

[@marickshorts]

You are all brainwashed. If you gonna do everything to "change" the climate there will be a difference in temperature of 0,0007 degrees C°. The climate has changing since the beginning of time. Less polluting is a good idea, but don't act we're gonna change the temperatures by drinking out of a paper straw.

[@user-jp9wd4dd8s]

And I suppose interference like this doesn't add to climate change. Evolution of weather isn't new.

[@Affliction99]

😍

[@senshin7243]

the earth is doomef to perish thanks to the efforts of humanity

[@crappymeal]

The earth doesn't care