The Guts
This is how it feels to be inside the glacier's guts.
Not many people would even dare to go in there, where it is dark, deep, cold, loud, and wet. And that is the whole purpose of this photograph; pushing your limits to capture what only a few people will ever experience at night.
Abseiling down felt incredible, as the more we penetrated into this dark monster, the more the fear sets up. I had many options and ideas in mind to be able to capture this shot. As usual, many features had to line up together for this moment to happen.
I locked myself against the ice wall about 15 meters deep, and by using a sling rope screwed into the ice, I was able to hang my tripod horizontally to grab these precious long exposure shots on the ice walls and the milky way sky.
The setup was simply impressive, and I did feel amazing just being hanging into that moulin with about 30 meters of dark void under my feet and my hanging tripod in the air.
Helgi was climbing up throwing ice fragments down below forcing me to protect my camera and looking down.
Once the shot was taken, I remember saying "oohhhh man! I think I got it! This is why we are here."
My words were bouncing all over the ice walls on the deep moulin.
I knew I had it.
