Meltwater Chute, Brasvellbreen Ice Wall, SvalbardBrasvellbreen is one of the largest ice walls in the northern hemisphere, stretching across the south coast of Nordaustlandet. This is a detail from that wall, shot from a small boat below. A meltwater channel has carved its way down through decades of compressed glacial ice, the water still falling through this narrow chute when I made the image. What drew me to this particular section was the banding in the ice. Those layers represent years of