Plot synopsis of Ice Chasing Journey

This film follows award-winning National Geographic photographer James Balog on his obsessive journey to capture the rapid erosion of glaciers in the Arctic. Balog is the director and founder of the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), a long-term photography project that uses a series of advanced time-lapse cameras to capture the changes caused by global climate change. Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a climate change skeptic. But through his extreme ice surveys, he uncovered undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys his revolutionary time-lapse camera to capture years of documentation of the world's changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos, compressed to seconds, capture ancient mountain ice in motion as they disappear at an alarming rate. Carrying a team of young adventurers across the unforgiving Arctic, Balog risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story humanity has ever faced. As debate polarizes the United States and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up around the world, Chasing Ice charts a heroic photojournalist's mission to offer fragile hope to our carbon-powered planet.