The glacier is not melting and getting smaller like all of the rest of glaciers. Its one of the few glaciers in the world that has actually increased in size compared to 100 years ago. Things like shown in the video are very common and happen everytime on summertime. Then on wintertime the glacier gets back all the ice it lost back in the hot seasons.
A fellow visitor used a camera with enough power and memory to record the full collapse. The video is LWVada2llys and the final drop starts to happen just before the 2-min mark.
I saw one of the most breathtaking, incredible sights I have ever seen in my life not long ago. I was standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon when suddenly
@@KFN1A2A3 "bravo!" is just a way to cheer/celebrate in spanish. People are also expecting it to happen, because the Perito Moreno forms this "bridge" every year, and every year it falls apart.
For all the persons hating on the ppl for celebrating this: this isn't 'cause of global warming, this happens every 4 or 5 years in Argentina. It's a natural calving. It "grows" again and the ice bridge breaks itself due to pressure. It's a natural cycle, and it is amazing to watch.
Glaciers are formed over centuries, not seasons. 69% of the earth’s fresh water is stored in glaciers. It is not a “normal” thing for glaciers to just fall apart, and certainly nothing to cheer. “Since glacial mass is affected by long-term climatic changes, e.g., precipitation, mean temperature, and cloud cover, glacial mass changes are considered among the most sensitive indicators of climate change and are a major source of variations in sea level.”
@@rebeccaw3701 yeah, it takes centuries for glaciers to form, so you are technically correct. Snowfall is not keeping up with glacier loss, though, so, in a practical sense, your comment is more along the line of “magical thinking.”
The glacier is constantly being pushed forward and broken. Last time i was there i saw a roughly 70 meter peace collapse, and i can't even explain the sound it makes. Imagine a thunderstorm, the sound of the thunder is quite similar to the glacier cracking up.
@@noornoor9278 it's not actually a bad thing as you might think, it's been doing this process for so many years. The glacier regenerates, it gets pushed, it collapses. It's a cycle
@@vinayak186f3 Sadly not, i just enjoyed the moment. Anyway, this is youtube, so if you search "Glaciar Perito Moreno rompiendose" you might come across some videos you like
@@gengenone1163 lmao 😂 like you were there or have a clue what happened. You really think 90% of it fell that day and then it took years for the last 10%? DUMB
Before they comment without knowing ... On the right where you see some rocks is the continent, on the left is the perito Moreno glacier 5k wide and the boat where it is filmed is the "Lake Argentino" the glacier constantly grows and collides with the continent forming a natural dam, On one side the water reaches 30 meters and the cavern begins to flow so that the lake returns to its natural course, and so every 4 years, the first detachment is dated in 1917 and is one of the few glaciers in motion. Here in Argentina we look forward to seeing this incredible show that nature offers us. The day that the glacier does not advance towards the continent is when we will really be in trouble.
No worries. Temperature leads CO2 levels by 800 years, but you won't get politicians to notice. Their method is purely anti-scientific: start with consensus/conclusion, then go shopping for supporting evidence while bulldozing any inconvenient facts.
@@toddreynolds8875 weight and terminal velocity have nothing to do with this. Big bulky pieces like this falling for this short of time make aerodynamics pretty negligible.
Because, according to underneath comments in spanish, Mother Nature forms this bridge each year. Could be its falling down is understood as Nature's cycle to be celebrated?
The Perito Moreno Glacier is one of the few glaciers in the world that continue to grow and it's not shrinking. This breaks are NOT caused by global warming but to the water pression under the glacier.!!
Gabriel Moline He is correct. I have been there. When I was there the glacier wasn't even at the shoreline. Have you been there? Don't talk on things you know nothing about.
I will never understand why people feel such a need to always make noise. They can't be quiet to experience something like this fully? They have to yell and shout over the top of it?
@@monadgreyman9094 They do have unusually high rates of open deification there like penguins despite carrying individual personal toilet bowls on their heads
Some info on why people clap at this: A) This is the Perito Moreno Glacier, located in Santa Cruz (Argentina). This glacier is form by snowfalls and rains on top of sourrouding mountains, so the pressure of each new layers falling down turns the old ones into ice forming the glacier. The whole valley is covered with ice, the ice/glacier is not "attached" to the bottom so it's actually constantly moving down through the valley at aprox. 2 meters per day. As the glacier grows it "hits" the opposite side of the valley and form a natural dam dividing the lake (Lago Argentino), one side (Brazo Rico) can grow and reach up to 30 meters of difference from the rest the lake, this water erodes the dam and so it becomes a bridge (what you see in this video). As glacier keeps growing it crompress the bridge against the opossite side, this crompression and the water eroding is what makes it collpase. This is a cyclic process, theres is no consensus on the time for each cycle, but in the last century the average was aprox. 4 years (from rupture-- new advance/growth-- new dam-- bridge forming and finally new rupture). So... this cyclic process is a good sign, it HAS to happend, it's shows a healthy nature. B) Even I never got lucky enough to witness a bridge collapse i've been there, twice. You may think that is a frozen place (depending on what time of the year) but it's overall a much wormer place than you would expect, actually it's not uncommon to see surrounding mountains covered in a very colourful forest, full of red, blue and yellow flowers... this contrast is absolutely amaaaaazing. South side (where the bridge is) is more than 2 Km wide, the glacier can reach up to 70 meters of height above the water, and there has been messurements that shows that it can go more than 130 meters under the water, it is huuuuuge, more than 250 KM2 of pure glacier..... there is no way you can capture this majestic place with cameras, huge chunks of ice are constantly falling down, each massive chunk cracking and falling down produces a sound that can't be heard in any other place... it's mesmerizing, the closest way to describe it are thunders... the ground, your body everything shakes at a real low frecuency every time a new crack appears. Just the waves produced by each chunk falling down are huge, some of this chunks can easily have the size of a 14 story building... you are hearing thunders, witnessiing a whole valley of ice "moving" and "spitting" icebergs to the lake while the wind makes you smell thaw water, ice, wet dirt and flowers... over there you actualy see and feel the energy, it makes you feel small, really small... people get excited, kids, adults, olders everyone gets all excited, you get goose bumps only hearing the thing... so yeah... you clap, even you don't really know why but you'll end up clapping like a small kid witnessing magic tricks.
Thank you for your very insightful comment. I have learnt so much from you. I was confused at first as to the cheering of the group, but now I understand why. What an awesome country. Thank you so much for explaining.
@@glynpereira3256 Thank you very much for your kind words, I'm glad that my comment was helpful. I hope sometime you could visit Argentina because indeed it's a vast and beautiful country.
Very well explained Benoso, I wish everyone would/could read your comment so as to understand everything about what is going on with this most incredible of glaciers in this most incredible of places! Viva la Argentina!
Love all the ice age films there so funny his class and teeth on the squirrel make me laugh especially the part where he's in the block of ice and it starts to melt and his class just won't reach the bloody acorn Lol😂😂
For context, this is the Perito Moreno glacier in Patagonia. This ice bridge forms every 2-3 years however during the spring thaw the high rate of flow will cut a path through the ice wall that's formed leading to the collapse of this ice bridge which as you can see happens very quickly. This information comes from another video featuring this phenomenon and several others that are similar that are located in other countries like Argentina.
H8dolf Schmitler I wasn’t implying I got a better education than him I was implying he’s one of those kids who thinks fighting and being ignorant is cool
The Perito Moreno forms this "bridge" and then collapses every year, it's seasonal and doesn't have anything to do with global warming. People congregate to see the bridge fall apart.
I know what lake ice sounds like when it breaks and cracks. This sounds must be thunderous not including the falling in the water. Nature is astonishing 😲
Lake ice melting isn’t the same as glaciers that took at least hundreds of thousands of years to form melting…we are witnessing the part of earth disintegrating due to selfishness of humans via fossil fuel abuse and capitalism. Global warming is the cause.
Para los preocupados.. hace 100 años el glaciar estaba cientos de metros retirado. Es más el Perito Francisco Moreno (que nunca lo conoció) no lo hubiera visto así de haberlo conocido. Fue en la últimas décadas que el glaciar avanzó y se mantiene estable. Es un caso único en el mundo.
@@ut000bs Not really: it is true that there are some glaciers in the world that advance, instead of retreating, but no other to my knowledge reaches the opposite shore, bisects a lake and provokes by doing so that the water level from one side of the lake rises so much that due to the pressure a big part of the front of the glacier finally collapses. Where else does it happen?
wow that was great. how peaceful was perito moreno when you went there. was perito moreno overcrowded with tourists and vendors or there was no mass tourism at that time only backpackers?
WoW! What an awesome sight. Please guys, take time to read the explanation about why and how often this happens. I was also confused about people cheering,until I researched.
A lot of people here are too arrogant to accept their first impression was wrong and resort to “I’m talking about glaciers in general....” when they were obviously pissed about this one that reforms every 4 years
@@francorocket9908 Its not destruction, its the common cycle of the glacier. This glacier is one of the few that has actually increased in size compared to one hundred years ago. Stop talking about something you do not know. People celebrate because its an amazing thing to see, Ive been to the same tour last summer and can attest how wonderful it is to have such a colossus in front of you.
I expected John Kerry to fly out at the last minute in his private jet and say "I TOLD YOU SO" climate change is real ! ! ! Thanks john for proving how HYPOCRITICAL Democrats can be with: "Rules are for thee, but NOT for me".
Imagine being up there and you just hear a ton of bangs and cracks and you don’t know where it’s coming from until the ground suddenly starts to fall away into the *depths* .
This video is sure full of people crying over something they didn't bother to investigate. People cheer because this is a known cyclical event in Perito's Moreno "life". It happened constantly over the course of its history, to the point it's a "celebrated event". So yeah, people do well in cheering this event, it means the glacier still grows as always. In a world where all goes to hell, this cycle will stop, due to the Perito Moreno never again growing into that piece of land.
@@JanitorIsBack Actually the Perito Moreno glacier is one of the few glaciers that still maintains equilibrium, growing and shrinking at an equal rate. As I understand it the reason for this isn't known yet despite most other glaciers consistently losing material.
Oh you naive bonehead i dare you to think that people are cheering because it is „just“ a cyclical event. They don’t really care why this happens because they are just there for entertainment you just need to watch ANY other video of some glacier breaking apart and you will hear cheers all along.
@@TheWillemDeBurI was there. I know what it feels like to hear, watch and feel the force of a glacier breaking ice. It wakes a primal instinct of excitement in you. But no one travels 2000km to watch that glacier only to not care about it's future. Also, you still seem to not understand. ALL GLACIERS BREAK. It's a natural process. Global warming or not. Global warming just decreases the ratio of breaking-forming. But the breaking itself isn't sad. In the same way that an avalanche or an old tee falling after a storm isn't sad. It's just the natural process of it.
No se ha roto por el calentamiento global. El glaciar Perito Moreno es uno de los pocos que se mantienen estables, va avanzando hasta que llega a una península que separa dos lagos y bloquea la parte en la que se unen. Uno de los lagos tiene ríos que hacen que no se acumule el agua, pero el otro no, por lo que el agua presiona el glaciar hasta formar un agujero que une otra vez los dos lagos. Este agujero se va haciendo cada vez más grande hasta que se forma el arco que se ve en el vídeo y finalmente, no por el cambio climático sino por la gravedad, el arco cae. Es un proceso cíclico, se repite cada varios años.
@@susanaoriarosameelanoxdave2909 Es que esta a salvo del calentamiento global, no va a desaparecer, más arriba una chica lo explica muy bien. Disfrute del espectáculo. Saludos.
@@susanaoriarosameelanoxdave2909 nada que ver con el calentamiento global, por qué no se informan para comprender y entender por qué se produce este fenómeno de la naturaleza,es muy interesante saberlo!!!
El glaciar Perito Moreno, en Argentina, es uno de los pocos que se mantiene estable pese al calentamiento global. Es un expectaculo natural q suceden todos los años para la misma fecha
es gracioso , porque bajo tu mismo concepto cada vez que anochece debemos entristecernos porque el sol se "destruye" , sabiendo que al otro dia volvera a estar soleado .
@@laduraverdad7516 Ahhhh I understand. I could have sworn they were on some type of vessel. I actually thought the waves could capsize the vessel. Good to know. Personally I’d still be a little scared, too close for my blood lol.
This bridge forms every 4 years and collapses in the same spot. It's a natural process which is celebrated because it is a really rare sight and a sign of the health and balance of the glaciar. Last time it collapsed at night and no one saw it, of course people were excited.
Wouldn't it be nice if people looked into the events of the video before commenting blaming global warming and making themselves look simple. It's been happening regularly for over a hundred years.
The glacier is 70m tall, so the small pieces have a size similar to a car, when one of those pieces hits the water sound like an explotion... when i was there, before seeing what was happening i thought a thunder was comming... (i was there after the bridge collapsed, but giant pieces of blue ice are falling all the time in summer)
Beautiful looking through mother nature's window... So sad the climax of the fall was missed ..but awesome nonetheless. Just imagine what goes on when no-one is watching. 🌊❄️🌬️🌨️✳️
dude you should at least use google. This glaciar does this once every 4 years, it's one of the only glaciars of the world that's contantly growing, but when it reaches the body of waters it starts eording and breaks off, repeating the process again. This is nothing new and has NOTHING to do with the human hand. read more.
@@everythingra8039 mate if we were face to face I would shake your hand 👍 You are the one single person I have seen that is happy to learn and not be combative. Thank you for saving the sliver of hope I had left for the community on here. 👍👍👍
@@scrappydoo7887 haha thank you. But I'm sure there are folks out there working lot harder to make this world a better place, I just make mere comments! Have a great day
@@everythingra8039 I get that but seriously everyone else that made a comment like yours WILL NOT back down or even have a conversation lol You backed down, were polite and respectful and had a conversation lol You are more rare than you know 😂
All the people in the comments acting horrified at the collapse because they think global warming caused it. It was actually the slow movement of the glacier that caused the collapse, not humans.
Es un proceso que se repite cada varios años en el mismo lugar, el glaciar avanza y no se derrite, choca con la roca y genera una presa que al recibir mucha presión es erosionada como un tunel y luego cae.
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I have never been more disappointed by a video ending in my life
Here's the last part falling th-cam.com/video/LWVada2llys/w-d-xo.html
@@stephenmacartney thanks 🙏
you have never watched Evangelion
@@stephenmacartneythank you
Slowly watching everything fall and before it's done, cutting to an image of the final product.
My favorite part is when they don't show the thing collapsing.
The glacier is not melting and getting smaller like all of the rest of glaciers. Its one of the few glaciers in the world that has actually increased in size compared to 100 years ago. Things like shown in the video are very common and happen everytime on summertime. Then on wintertime the glacier gets back all the ice it lost back in the hot seasons.
Here's the last part falling th-cam.com/video/LWVada2llys/w-d-xo.html
,😂😂😂
Maybe cause of the indecent people who says "bravo, bravo "
And shout any human's useless words.
Most dissatisfying video ever. I swear the chunk I stared at the whole time is the only part he didn’t film falling!
same 😂
When it was about to fall his cell phone ran out of battery lol
“ALMOST Caught On Video: Glacier Bridge Collapses!”
The title really isn't good.
A fellow visitor used a camera with enough power and memory to record the full collapse. The video is LWVada2llys and the final drop starts to happen just before the 2-min mark.
I saw one of the most breathtaking, incredible sights I have ever seen in my life not long ago. I was standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon when suddenly
??? Bro don't keep us in anticipation like that
I want to know how it ends... 😪
Kind of reminds you of the ending of this video, eh?
@@johnhtexas thank God you're alive, I thought you had stumbled off the edge mid-sentence
Legendary
There's always some big mouth in the crowd that needs to be heard.
Monsterbaby true, VERY TRUE
Ahhhh! BRAVOOOOOOO!
Mas bien loquita!!
Actually its Argentinian
@@Ronin.Samurai You must be the big mouth....snowflake!
If you pause at 2:30 the chunk falling looks like a unicorn.
the fuck u smoked hahaha I also saw it
lmaooooo
Thank you for this :)
I saw it :)
NEMESSIS1987 omg
Would laugh if i seen a squirrel with an acorn running out of there
Haha good reference
yeah lol
Yessir
Hahaha genius!
Yep LOL i wish
Its a little weird to be cheering but it is something to behold. Amazing.
And saying "bravo" is very weird. It's like complimenting the ice for doing a good job
@@KFN1A2A3 "bravo!" is just a way to cheer/celebrate in spanish.
People are also expecting it to happen, because the Perito Moreno forms this "bridge" every year, and every year it falls apart.
@@laelaps5246 yeah, but bravo is still an Italian word that essentially means "well done"
@@KFN1A2A3 but the people in the video are speaking spanish, not italian
@@laelaps5246 yeah, I got that
For all the persons hating on the ppl for celebrating this: this isn't 'cause of global warming, this happens every 4 or 5 years in Argentina. It's a natural calving. It "grows" again and the ice bridge breaks itself due to pressure. It's a natural cycle, and it is amazing to watch.
Thanks for information Lyn
exactly like in my broken freezer
Lmfaooo it grows
Yeah right. Grow upp humans then talk.
U r educated bitch
I love how blue the inner ice is. Such a beautiful color.
Was.
Mariví Palomino well yea the average temperature of the earth isn’t freezing
Yeah, nightwalker blue.
Its called fresh water...lol
Blue is the warmest colour ..?!! 😻😸🙊
When you hit a block of sand in Minecraft
bruh 😂
When you literally walk on gravel in the nether and fall into the lava
Something always comes back to damn minecraft. Narrow minded fools.
@@simonchant761 it's called a joke but whatever
@@simonchant761 how dare you offend minecraft
For some reason I felt sorrow watching it break apart. 😢
ice is heavy. it builds back up again.
Probably global warmjng
@@48mavemiss2 or you know, ice melts when seasons change. Believe it or not it happens in the artics as well
Glaciers are formed over centuries, not seasons. 69% of the earth’s fresh water is stored in glaciers. It is not a “normal” thing for glaciers to just fall apart, and certainly nothing to cheer.
“Since glacial mass is affected by long-term climatic changes, e.g., precipitation, mean temperature, and cloud cover, glacial mass changes are considered among the most sensitive indicators of climate change and are a major source of variations in sea level.”
@@rebeccaw3701 yeah, it takes centuries for glaciers to form, so you are technically correct. Snowfall is not keeping up with glacier loss, though, so, in a practical sense, your comment is more along the line of “magical thinking.”
The glacier is constantly being pushed forward and broken. Last time i was there i saw a roughly 70 meter peace collapse, and i can't even explain the sound it makes. Imagine a thunderstorm, the sound of the thunder is quite similar to the glacier cracking up.
Thanks for that information 👍
Wow 🥺
@@noornoor9278 it's not actually a bad thing as you might think, it's been doing this process for so many years. The glacier regenerates, it gets pushed, it collapses. It's a cycle
@@LongLiveCoffee Would like to see if you have any videos of that 😀
@@vinayak186f3 Sadly not, i just enjoyed the moment. Anyway, this is youtube, so if you search "Glaciar Perito Moreno rompiendose" you might come across some videos you like
I hate you forever for not having recorded the final piece.
I feel the same.
How do you know it collapsed?
3:51 Still see it?
btw, a partial "collapse" ? It's in the title...
deleted comment: Pimpa Licious: "who says it has fallen?"
Agree, it may be vaporized...
You're not that bright, are you?
Maybe the final photo was Photoshopped!!! ;p
So.mad they didn't get the last piece falling. So anticlimactic
I see you what you did there... anticlimactic true tho...
The last piece fell some time later as in years. The last picture on the video isxa trip back there not from the same trip.
antiantartic
@@dannybenhur6123 maybe they needed to get the hell outta dodge cause the wave from that would have been a wee bit dangerous to be around.
@@gengenone1163 lmao 😂 like you were there or have a clue what happened. You really think 90% of it fell that day and then it took years for the last 10%? DUMB
When the movie runs out of budget and just skips to the ending.
Before they comment without knowing ...
On the right where you see some rocks is the continent, on the left is the perito Moreno glacier 5k wide and the boat where it is filmed is the "Lake Argentino" the glacier constantly grows and collides with the continent forming a natural dam, On one side the water reaches 30 meters and the cavern begins to flow so that the lake returns to its natural course, and so every 4 years, the first detachment is dated in 1917 and is one of the few glaciers in motion.
Here in Argentina we look forward to seeing this incredible show that nature offers us.
The day that the glacier does not advance towards the continent is when we will really be in trouble.
Thank you for explaining the basic science of glaciers. Too bad most of the people who need to read this... won't.
I was looking at that rock, I thought it looked very sexy.
●^●
No worries. Temperature leads CO2 levels by 800 years, but you won't get politicians to notice. Their method is purely anti-scientific: start with consensus/conclusion, then go shopping for supporting evidence while bulldozing any inconvenient facts.
buena aclaración pero...no creo que el cambio climatico acepte excepciones, hace 100 años, era igual?
It took about 2 seconds for each piece to fall and hit the water. This makes the height to be a little bit less than 20 metres or around 65 feet
Mega stonk
That would be quite a statement. Cuz every piece would have to wiegh the same to make a terminal velocity statement like that
@@toddreynolds8875 weight and terminal velocity have nothing to do with this. Big bulky pieces like this falling for this short of time make aerodynamics pretty negligible.
@@toddreynolds8875 It's not a statement about terminal velocity at all.
I googled it, says it's 74m above the lake, which probably means the surface is 74m and the arch is probably 45/50 metres above the water
Why are they so happy to see it collapse? It was a beautiful piece of mother nature
Because, according to underneath comments in spanish, Mother Nature forms this bridge each year. Could be its falling down is understood as Nature's cycle to be celebrated?
It doesn't become "other" than mother nature when it collapses.
It's the same as a volcano erupting...its a natural event. Some people believe that ice isn't supposed to melt...but it does sometimes.
They're happy because they're not under or over that bridge
Because they are f$cking idiots.
This is truly devastating. Then you realize this is the only glacier in the world that’s still growing instead of shrinking.
Nonsense, most are growing. The retreating was worse pre 1950
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People on boat: "Oh so pretty"
*As tsunami sized wave approaches boat*
They're so dumb
Tsunami is wave width not height.
@@Thesunburntcrack not entirely true.
no technically it is a tsunami
That's a baby wave, nothing Tsunami about it
The Perito Moreno Glacier is one of the few glaciers in the world that continue to grow and it's not shrinking. This breaks are NOT caused by global warming but to the water pression under the glacier.!!
pew Pew You won't convince some people they think it's global warming LOL.
pew Pew that may be true. But the pressue of the water increases with temperature too which is a result of global warming.
pew Pew You are either really stupid, or paid off, cuz what you stated is a lie.
Gabriel Moline He is correct. I have been there. When I was there the glacier wasn't even at the shoreline. Have you been there? Don't talk on things you know nothing about.
crutherford1 Another liar.
Imagine if as this was happening, everyone was quiet so we could hear it.
Imagine if it was a documentary, then they could have…
I will never understand why people feel such a need to always make noise. They can't be quiet to experience something like this fully? They have to yell and shout over the top of it?
@@DreamBelief I agree
@@DreamBelief Are you seriously mad because you couldn’t hear some ice fall in water?
Yeah I was annoyed too 😂
Watching this to help me keep cool in 110⁰F Texas heat.
When you realize by the voices that it's Pingu and his family watching and recording
😂
I love-hate Pingu
@@shreyanshm7865 no I just hate MoFo penguins effing annoying birds, shitting all over the place like it's India
@@monadgreyman9094 They do have unusually high rates of open deification there like penguins despite carrying individual personal toilet bowls on their heads
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some info on why people clap at this:
A)
This is the Perito Moreno Glacier, located in Santa Cruz (Argentina). This glacier is form by snowfalls and rains on top of sourrouding mountains, so the pressure of each new layers falling down turns the old ones into ice forming the glacier. The whole valley is covered with ice, the ice/glacier is not "attached" to the bottom so it's actually constantly moving down through the valley at aprox. 2 meters per day. As the glacier grows it "hits" the opposite side of the valley and form a natural dam dividing the lake (Lago Argentino), one side (Brazo Rico) can grow and reach up to 30 meters of difference from the rest the lake, this water erodes the dam and so it becomes a bridge (what you see in this video). As glacier keeps growing it crompress the bridge against the opossite side, this crompression and the water eroding is what makes it collpase. This is a cyclic process, theres is no consensus on the time for each cycle, but in the last century the average was aprox. 4 years (from rupture-- new advance/growth-- new dam-- bridge forming and finally new rupture).
So... this cyclic process is a good sign, it HAS to happend, it's shows a healthy nature.
B)
Even I never got lucky enough to witness a bridge collapse i've been there, twice. You may think that is a frozen place (depending on what time of the year) but it's overall a much wormer place than you would expect, actually it's not uncommon to see surrounding mountains covered in a very colourful forest, full of red, blue and yellow flowers... this contrast is absolutely amaaaaazing. South side (where the bridge is) is more than 2 Km wide, the glacier can reach up to 70 meters of height above the water, and there has been messurements that shows that it can go more than 130 meters under the water, it is huuuuuge, more than 250 KM2 of pure glacier..... there is no way you can capture this majestic place with cameras, huge chunks of ice are constantly falling down, each massive chunk cracking and falling down produces a sound that can't be heard in any other place... it's mesmerizing, the closest way to describe it are thunders... the ground, your body everything shakes at a real low frecuency every time a new crack appears. Just the waves produced by each chunk falling down are huge, some of this chunks can easily have the size of a 14 story building... you are hearing thunders, witnessiing a whole valley of ice "moving" and "spitting" icebergs to the lake while the wind makes you smell thaw water, ice, wet dirt and flowers... over there you actualy see and feel the energy, it makes you feel small, really small... people get excited, kids, adults, olders everyone gets all excited, you get goose bumps only hearing the thing... so yeah... you clap, even you don't really know why but you'll end up clapping like a small kid witnessing magic tricks.
Thank you for your very insightful comment. I have learnt so much from you. I was confused at first as to the cheering of the group, but now I understand why. What an awesome country. Thank you so much for explaining.
@@glynpereira3256 Thank you very much for your kind words, I'm glad that my comment was helpful. I hope sometime you could visit Argentina because indeed it's a vast and beautiful country.
Very well explained Benoso, I wish everyone would/could read your comment so as to understand everything about what is going on with this most incredible of glaciers in this most incredible of places! Viva la Argentina!
This needs to be pinned at the top and you should have to check a box saying you read it before commenting on this video
Huge wave comes, capsizes boat.
Iceberg: bravo yay
Haha I was thinking the same the entire video. They were too close imo. Don’t mess with nature.
@@miamivlad 100%. Crazy. Way too close.
It's not an iceberg
@@SalvableRuin I know, it’s a snowman ⛄️
Two hours before the collapse I passed through this very arch on the way to work.
🤣🤣🤣
Genius!
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All it’s missing is Dwayne Johnson driving out of there with dramatic music slow motion
ALL I can think about is ice age and that dam squirrel with an acorn
JSCRILLA253 I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I seriously was looking for him up there when the video started haha
JSCRILLA253 funny. I was thinking the said thing
if you look closely you can see a weird looking squirrel on top of it then it falls with the ice
JSCRILLA253 Hahahahaha!! :-)
Best Comment EVER !
Love all the ice age films there so funny his class and teeth on the squirrel make me laugh especially the part where he's in the block of ice and it starts to melt and his class just won't reach the bloody acorn Lol😂😂
I love these vids, the ones where the spectators aren't competing to see who can hoot and hollar the loudest are particularly satisfying.
You watched and you're commenting..I'm sure if you were there you wouldn't shut the fk up either mate..
For context, this is the Perito Moreno glacier in Patagonia. This ice bridge forms every 2-3 years however during the spring thaw the high rate of flow will cut a path through the ice wall that's formed leading to the collapse of this ice bridge which as you can see happens very quickly. This information comes from another video featuring this phenomenon and several others that are similar that are located in other countries like Argentina.
Comment section always reminds me why I cant stand people.
Max Clake your name is max and your pfp is idc there’s a 90% chance you’re in an alternative school
@@cooper197 damn..
cooper c destroyed
cooper c LMAO imaging thinking you get a good education in public school of all places. That’s actual comedy!
H8dolf Schmitler I wasn’t implying I got a better education than him I was implying he’s one of those kids who thinks fighting and being ignorant is cool
Imagine being a fish just vibin, then getting bonked by some big ice cubes
I was thinking the same thing! 🐟
bonk
Lol 🤣
This was not time of Joy but it was time to cry...
The Perito Moreno forms this "bridge" and then collapses every year, it's seasonal and doesn't have anything to do with global warming.
People congregate to see the bridge fall apart.
Why are they cheering? That is not a good sign for the world around us🤦🏿♀️😭
Beautiful...
Blue and white combination.
Never thought this is Argentina
we have all the environments/climates ;)
@@octaro3310 really bro? I need to consider Argentina to my bucket list then
I know what lake ice sounds like when it breaks and cracks. This sounds must be thunderous not including the falling in the water. Nature is astonishing 😲
Living on a lake here in Maine... It's the exact sound you described...
"What a Loser"!!! "Clickbait at its Finest"!!!👎
Lake ice melting isn’t the same as glaciers that took at least hundreds of thousands of years to form melting…we are witnessing the part of earth disintegrating due to selfishness of humans via fossil fuel abuse and capitalism. Global warming is the cause.
I swear to god I learn more about glacier calving in TH-cam comments than school
Tbh I'll believe you, that's the schools fault tho lol
ikr
LOL GOOD ONE
Bolton03 Yes, because learning about glacier calving is an absolute must...
haha good one! i feel the same it seems...school was pretty useless for me i think..learnt more in life after leaving...
to think that all of those tiny bits of ice arent actually tiny at all. they're in fact huge. glaciers amaze me
I’m more mesmerized by how blue that ice is just off to the left! Wow! Beautiful
Shade
Indeed, I'm feeling blue...
It is not shade. The darker the ice, the older it is. There are some sections of that glacier that are of a much darker blue.
@@Rod_MolinaBachmann wow really??!! Tell us more Roddy-pooh..give us all that knowledge
@@Rod_MolinaBachmann yeah, I believe during Wurm period, Moreno was already there.
Glaciers around my area are all white.
Non capirò mai perché c’è gente che ride.
Per quanto spettacolare, è una meraviglia dell natura che scompare per sempre.
Google Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia, Argentina
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perito_Moreno_Glacier
Interesting to watch...and i wasnt aware of this particular glacier kind of balancing itself out! Nature at one of it's best 👍
I'm curious to know if the ice melts once it falls into the water, or if the water temperature is cold enough for it to stay frozen while submerged.
Interesting question :o probably in this area it is cold enough but when they washed into warmer waters, it melts
@@cryptonid7064 That makes sense. Underwater currents can be surprisingly strong.
Minor note: ice is less dense than water, so it floats & some of it will be above the surface of the water.
If you think about it, the tide is rising globally and the fact that this is a regular occurance shows that the ice is melting in the water!
@@declanb21 the glacier is in a lake!!! very very far from the sea!!
Wow...nature man...I am humbled every time mother nature flexes....
Para los preocupados.. hace 100 años el glaciar estaba cientos de metros retirado. Es más el Perito Francisco Moreno (que nunca lo conoció) no lo hubiera visto así de haberlo conocido. Fue en la últimas décadas que el glaciar avanzó y se mantiene estable. Es un caso único en el mundo.
There are many.
Y los ingenuos celebran
@@ut000bs Not really: it is true that there are some glaciers in the world that advance, instead of retreating, but no other to my knowledge reaches the opposite shore, bisects a lake and provokes by doing so that the water level from one side of the lake rises so much that due to the pressure a big part of the front of the glacier finally collapses. Where else does it happen?
@@leonidas4342 De ingenuos no tienen nada
@@laduraverdad7516 por q no ?
I was there in 1998/99 and watched a bit of it collapse from the viewing point and also again from the ferry boat. It was spectacular.
wow that was great. how peaceful was perito moreno when you went there. was perito moreno overcrowded with tourists and vendors or there was no mass tourism at that time only backpackers?
The spectators sound like they're watching a fireworks show.
The “little” pieces will smash your car already.
Not that you would have a car in the water. Maybe a boat. Lol
WoW! What an awesome sight. Please guys, take time to read the explanation about why and how often this happens. I was also confused about people cheering,until I researched.
See Benosa Leandro' explanation. Fascinating.!
What explanation? It on,y talks about what the company does and there is nothing about why and how it happens.
@@BikerGirlTraveler Go use Google. It will help you LEARN something and being less lazy and ignorant.
People cheer because it's an awesome sight just like fireworks. No more, no less.
A lot of people here are too arrogant to accept their first impression was wrong and resort to “I’m talking about glaciers in general....” when they were obviously pissed about this one that reforms every 4 years
Cool. One more amazing thing to go see in South America if you can. Beautiful. Cheers from 🇨🇦.
CALVA
Greerings from Buenos Aires, Argentina!!!🇦🇷❤🇨🇦
Bridges falling...infrastructure is crappy there!
Me at the fast food place: “Easy ice please.”
The fast food place:
Crazy how slow the stuff comes down almost floating . But when your close its probably super fast coming down.
Bless All Fellow Humans
I love how you can instantly translate the word "awesome" or "cool", or "Oh, my god" no matter what language it is.
I bet his phone died right as the best part was happening lol. Still a fun vid to watch though.
I didn't know people enjoyed watching icebergs breaking apart. 😂
Global warming #karma
Lol and here we are!
It happens every year
Now you know.
It's not an iceberg
I can't imagine how beautiful this was to see in person!
Almost as beautiful as you :)
That's Argentina, what a beautiful place
Those are the only ones idiots who celebrates about destruction
@@francorocket9908 Its not destruction, its the common cycle of the glacier. This glacier is one of the few that has actually increased in size compared to one hundred years ago. Stop talking about something you do not know. People celebrate because its an amazing thing to see, Ive been to the same tour last summer and can attest how wonderful it is to have such a colossus in front of you.
"Ice melt bad. Ive been trained to think this always" -most people in the comments
This is so cool I had to keep playing the video. Wish I could have seen the entire collapse. 😊
A variant of the "if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it" meme.
I bet you kept getting annoyed at the small pieces falling and couldn't wait for the the biggest chunk to collapse 😬
YES
and...it never happened on vid! What a total waste of time.
I expected John Kerry to fly out at the last minute in his private jet and say "I TOLD YOU SO" climate change is real ! ! ! Thanks john for proving how HYPOCRITICAL Democrats can be with: "Rules are for thee, but NOT for me".
--"We should cancel...or relocate...the kayak race."
--"Agreed."
Qajaq*
Imagine being up there and you just hear a ton of bangs and cracks and you don’t know where it’s coming from until the ground suddenly starts to fall away into the *depths* .
These comments are hilarious
like this
This video is sure full of people crying over something they didn't bother to investigate. People cheer because this is a known cyclical event in Perito's Moreno "life". It happened constantly over the course of its history, to the point it's a "celebrated event". So yeah, people do well in cheering this event, it means the glacier still grows as always. In a world where all goes to hell, this cycle will stop, due to the Perito Moreno never again growing into that piece of land.
you are so full of bullshit.
@@JanitorIsBack Actually the Perito Moreno glacier is one of the few glaciers that still maintains equilibrium, growing and shrinking at an equal rate.
As I understand it the reason for this isn't known yet despite most other glaciers consistently losing material.
JanitorIsBack ur an idiot.
Oh you naive bonehead i dare you to think that people are cheering because it is „just“ a cyclical event. They don’t really care why this happens because they are just there for entertainment you just need to watch ANY other video of some glacier breaking apart and you will hear cheers all along.
@@TheWillemDeBurI was there. I know what it feels like to hear, watch and feel the force of a glacier breaking ice. It wakes a primal instinct of excitement in you. But no one travels 2000km to watch that glacier only to not care about it's future.
Also, you still seem to not understand. ALL GLACIERS BREAK. It's a natural process. Global warming or not. Global warming just decreases the ratio of breaking-forming. But the breaking itself isn't sad. In the same way that an avalanche or an old tee falling after a storm isn't sad. It's just the natural process of it.
No se ha roto por el calentamiento global. El glaciar Perito Moreno es uno de los pocos que se mantienen estables, va avanzando hasta que llega a una península que separa dos lagos y bloquea la parte en la que se unen. Uno de los lagos tiene ríos que hacen que no se acumule el agua, pero el otro no, por lo que el agua presiona el glaciar hasta formar un agujero que une otra vez los dos lagos. Este agujero se va haciendo cada vez más grande hasta que se forma el arco que se ve en el vídeo y finalmente, no por el cambio climático sino por la gravedad, el arco cae. Es un proceso cíclico, se repite cada varios años.
Cuando estuve allá la guia nos dijo que el ciclo es, más o menos, de 4 años
Como coño la gente le gusta ver el puto calentamiento global el planeta se está muriendo y les da igual le mola ver como se muere v:
@@susanaoriarosameelanoxdave2909 no seas ignorante, este video no tiene nada que ver con el calentamiento global
@@susanaoriarosameelanoxdave2909 Es que esta a salvo del calentamiento global, no va a desaparecer, más arriba una chica lo explica muy bien. Disfrute del espectáculo. Saludos.
@@susanaoriarosameelanoxdave2909 nada que ver con el calentamiento global, por qué no se informan para comprender y entender por qué se produce este fenómeno de la naturaleza,es muy interesante saberlo!!!
Passengers: We want to watch it!
Captain: I prefer to survive.
Rumor has it seconds before the video was shot they were considering going through that bridge tunnel. 🤯
Es impresionante ver esto, pero no entiendo la felicidad de la gente que esta filmando al ver que todo se destruye .😕😕😕😢😢😢😢😢
El glaciar Perito Moreno, en Argentina, es uno de los pocos que se mantiene estable pese al calentamiento global. Es un expectaculo natural q suceden todos los años para la misma fecha
@@carlosgardenias5762 cada cuatro años
es gracioso , porque bajo tu mismo concepto cada vez que anochece debemos entristecernos porque el sol se "destruye" , sabiendo que al otro dia volvera a estar soleado .
Es solo hielo. Cual es tu problema?
Creo que la peor cosa es escuchar los burros detrás que se alegran y se ríen de una catástrofe natural y de un desastre ecológico.
Bravo as a 100ft swell engulfs the boat
Which boat? They are standing high enough on the shore. I´ve been there many times
@@laduraverdad7516 joking I think.
@@laduraverdad7516 doesn't matter. we get the joke.
@@laduraverdad7516 Ahhhh I understand. I could have sworn they were on some type of vessel. I actually thought the waves could capsize the vessel. Good to know. Personally I’d still be a little scared, too close for my blood lol.
It’s mesmerizing to watch but then I caught myself crying 😢 so sad
Wow! What a spectacular site! The sound must've been incredibly loud.
Everyone's happy and shouting bravo as a natural ice bridge falls apart?
That's why we can't have anything nice is this world.
This bridge forms every 4 years and collapses in the same spot. It's a natural process which is celebrated because it is a really rare sight and a sign of the health and balance of the glaciar. Last time it collapsed at night and no one saw it, of course people were excited.
Drink a kale shake or something and chill out
That dude mad af bro and dumb af
@@GranadaFelish
Sorry I didn't study this in college before watching the video.
@@ArmyMedicRN
Just stating an opinion, I'm was chill when I typed it. It's gonna be ok 👌.
this is like watching the last bee die
Perito Moreno glacier unlike most glaciers is not retreating.
no.
Nah, more like last mosquito.
Why are people cheering and laughing? It’s sad!
@@theart3813 It's not sad man. The ice grows back, it happens every 4 years.
I wonder what was the elevation from the surface of the ocean to the very highest point inside that arch
One of the other comments here estimated it to be about 20m/65ft up
WTF 😳😳😳😳.... How the hell did you miss the end?!?🤔
Was a great show up to that point 😁👍
He wanted to keep the end for himself
In the water? 😂
Here's the last part falling th-cam.com/video/LWVada2llys/w-d-xo.html
Wouldn't it be nice if people looked into the events of the video before commenting blaming global warming and making themselves look simple. It's been happening regularly for over a hundred years.
Sheep fallow the don't do their own research...
The glacier is 70m tall, so the small pieces have a size similar to a car, when one of those pieces hits the water sound like an explotion... when i was there, before seeing what was happening i thought a thunder was comming... (i was there after the bridge collapsed, but giant pieces of blue ice are falling all the time in summer)
Never say it’s your birthday in an Italian restaurant
Wow!!! Thank you for sharing this video. I got to feel like I was there.
Thank you for sharing this video and very beautiful thank you so much
To have witnessed that in PERSON!!@ OMG breathtakingly beautiful!!!! How RARE THANKS FOR SHARING AND PERFECTLY FILMED FOOTAGE !!
how it feels to watch ur snow fort collapse during spring
Just read comments, clicking away.
Beautiful looking through mother nature's window...
So sad the climax of the fall was missed ..but awesome nonetheless.
Just imagine what goes on when no-one is watching.
🌊❄️🌬️🌨️✳️
Meanwhile one alien talking to other alien: *See how crazy humans are, this is how they enjoy destruction of their own planet :)*
dude you should at least use google.
This glaciar does this once every 4 years, it's one of the only glaciars of the world that's contantly growing, but when it reaches the body of waters it starts eording and breaks off, repeating the process again.
This is nothing new and has NOTHING to do with the human hand. read more.
@@590dami sorry, wasn't aware of this fact, comment was my spontaneous reaction.
Thanks for letting me know.
@@everythingra8039 mate if we were face to face I would shake your hand 👍
You are the one single person I have seen that is happy to learn and not be combative.
Thank you for saving the sliver of hope I had left for the community on here.
👍👍👍
@@scrappydoo7887 haha thank you. But I'm sure there are folks out there working lot harder to make this world a better place, I just make mere comments! Have a great day
@@everythingra8039 I get that but seriously everyone else that made a comment like yours WILL NOT back down or even have a conversation lol
You backed down, were polite and respectful and had a conversation lol
You are more rare than you know 😂
The fact that these people are chearingand not worrying about a wave is amazing
“Mama says stupid is as stupid does”
Sincerely your good friend:
Forrest Gump
You missed the best moment when the bridge finally collapsed???? This is so dumb.
In this glacier this happen every 4 or 5 years. It's not a bad thing...
Or maybe every 2 o 1 years
Knowledge is power.
How lucky they were to witness this natural phenomenon!
that was beautiful to watch, thank you for sharing this.
@techradio Yes it is, it even carved a nice little pass through the glacier.
They cheered until the planet was destroyed.
Wonderful- Argentina next destination :)) Love
Hootmove
Seras bienvenido a mi país.
Happens every 4 years..its wonderful..the smell of the ice..the noise. The nature is beautifull.
People recording sounding like sims
All the people in the comments acting horrified at the collapse because they think global warming caused it. It was actually the slow movement of the glacier that caused the collapse, not humans.
Nature destroys what nature builds.
can we count humans as nature???? cuz we do alot of damage. it just doesnt seem fair
Graphi Graphi i think that was a typo, should have read “nature builds what humans destroy”
Hi !!!!, estuve aquí, no en el momento del rompimiento, pero es algo que nos deja sin palabras, realmente asombroso, saludos
Es un proceso que se repite cada varios años en el mismo lugar, el glaciar avanza y no se derrite, choca con la roca y genera una presa que al recibir mucha presión es erosionada como un tunel y luego cae.
Pero está lleno de boludos q se quejan y se enojan Con los q aplauden sin haber averiguado nada con respecto al glaciar. Omggg