The HPS31 is the first glacier that the Arctic Sunrise visited during its expedition in Patagonia.
The Arctic Sunrise crew comparing the HPS31 glacier with a photo taken 50 years earlier on the Tilman expedition .
Jorge Quinteros at the HPS31 glacier viewpoint holding the photo taken during his expedition in 1955 showing the extent of the melt.
Greenpeace activist Erika Augustinsson (Swedish), comparing a photo of Blomstrandbreen (1928) with the present situation.
Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world. More than 2 billion people - a third of the world's population, rely on the Himalayas for their water.
The Franz Josef glacier is again in a period of retreat, despite an increase between 1983 and 1999.
By 1997 Grinnell's remnants were less than half its total in 1850. © Fagre, Glacier National Park archives.
The Arctic Sunrise in front of the PIO11 glacier which up until five years ago was one of the only glaciers in the region to be advancing.
The Arctic Sunrise anchored in front of the HPS31 glacier .
By 1994 the Orubare had broken into four smaller glaciers. The glacier catchment basin is vitally important to densely populated Uganda, supplying 500,000 people with water and flowing into the Nile.
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