ICE thoughts

As a Boy Scout, I appreciate the rugged determination to go places Man should probably not go and the light that this project is trying to shine on the glacial retreat problem. As a potential engineer, I appreciate the work it took to get the cameras set up to take a picture every hour and I feel the pain when you think that you've got it right, everything STILL turns out wrong, then fixing it to try another time. The logistics of this project were enormous, countless hours in the basement building gear, buying equipment, training, etc. all leading up to the incredibly expensive textbook that some of us had to buy. For all of that work, this man is living his dream.

The one thing that I didn't see or may not have caught was where was he getting all of his funding? Surely Natural Geographic paid for the pictures and the stories that appeared in the article, but this trip need guides, cameras, parts, helicopters, man hours by the ton and yet I saw none of that. We also didn't hear much from the local guides that had to go and check up on the cameras monthly. More behind the scenes work that was missing is what exactly were the members of EIS doing while they waited for the pictures to return? It seemed like this was almost a hobby for them.