Glacier melt

Nordenskiöldbreen is an amazing and awe inspiring glacier, it is huge.

It is also retreating, shrinking away from the fjord, back up the glacier valley.
The mass of the glacier is reducing as it creeps back, revealing the dirt at the edge of the fjord.

It somehow seems slightly incongruous that a massive body of ice doesn’t create an environment that is cold enough to stop the ice from melting. But the melt water pours down at a rapid rate from beneath the glacier. It sounds so loud.