The hard work of drilling into glacier ice

Camilo Rada taking out the tall ice auger from Kaskawulsh Glacier in the Yukon while drilling a five meter hole to secure a data logger (pole on the left of the image). The station needs to measure the water pressure from a sensor hundreds of meters deep in a nearby moulin for the summer. Securing something on a melting glacier is no simple task. This was part of a network of similar stations to better understand how water moves through a glacier.
by Giulio Saibene