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A chessboard pattern. the river is the lifeline of harbin city and in the winter the source of the construction material for a city of ice. this is what it will look like when it's finished the famous ice festival will open soon hundreds of thousands of visitors will come to have fun in the cold as they marvel the elaborate ice structures. but first comes the hard work the ice has to be lifted out of the river a block of ice can weigh up to one thousand kilos in the few weeks before the festival begins they pull thousands of ice blocks out of the river. or to rock and ice and not make you tire...

Accepted upon motherhood. a very personal film about the suffering of childless women in not adjourn. the fruitless tree starting january fourteenth on d w. s. down to zero sky is one of put doors and last ice merchants are now seventy four he cuts out ice blocks by hand from the chamber also glacier to sell at the local market but modern refrigeration technology and climate change pose a threat to his profession nevertheless baltazar is determined to pass this time honored tradition on to the younger generation.

You're in the wrong place at the wrong time when one of these ice blocks decides to tumble over, you have tragedy and people die. >> yeah. ed, these avalanches, is there anything that man does, the fact that we're on this glacier, are we doing anything to make things less stable there? >> no. i mean, we're -- you know, if you look at the ice fall and you see people climbing in the ice fall, they're minuscule compared to this gigantic mass of ice. you can be there in the daytime, you can be there in the nighttime. the ice will do whatever it wants to do. the whole plan is to just move there ver...

Of a split. they have to decide because the window for climbing is narrow. they don't have much longer, perhaps until the end of may, alex. >> right. okay. thank you, duncan. a bit earlier today, i spoke with the expert mountaineer and author of "the mountain, my time on everest," and here's what he said about the notoriously dangerous area. >> it's between base camp and camp one and it's an area of the khumbu glacier as its sliding down the mountain at about three feet per day. it's starting to break up and cause a jumble giant towering pieces of ice. and it's slowly moving conveyer belt of...

The world's tallest peak. joining me now is someone who knows that peak all too well. ed biesters. he wrote "the mountain, my time on everest." thank you for being here. we appreciate your time. i know you've sum meted this mountain seven times. talk about this mountain, the popcorn field where it happened. >> it's directly above base camp and between base camp and camp one. it's the area of the glacier as it's sliding down the mountain at three feet per day. it's starting to break up and cause a jumble of giant towering pieces of ice. and it's slowly moving conveyor melt pieces of ice blocks....