Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171202:19:34:00
Seen in greenland's many glaciers. it is a mass of thick ice that moves under the force of its own weight. like a slow river into the sea. but as melt water moves through the ice, it softens it, draining to the bed where it then lubricates the movement of the glacier. we got a rare close-up view of one of greenland's fastest moving glaciers, named hel heim after a viking, it is fast and unforgiving. >> this is one of the most productive glaciers in greenland. it's about three golden gate bridges wide. it graidrains almost an astronol amount of water in is delivering from high on the ice sheets...