A slow fade between two images of the Blue Glacier and Mt. Olympus take form the same location 40 years apart shows the stark reality of a warming planet through the loss of glacial ice.

Witness the dramatic loss of ice in the largest alpine glacier in Olympic National Park. Video begins with a photo taken from the lateral moraine looking south in July 1982 and slowly fades to the same scene captured in July 2022.

Here is the first pair of comparison images showing the change in the glacier since 1982. This is the result of climate change accelerated by human activity.

A view looking south up the Blue Glacier as the glacier looked in July 1982 fading to its appear today, July 2022.