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202 Earthy Bulgaria; Planet Ice

Travel with Rick Steves

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The Neegards Breen Glacier in Norway

In Greenland you have the Elulisat glacier which is flowing 35 meters a day because it's being lubricated by meltwater, but it's receding faster than that. And then I went to Nygards Breen and you can actually walk on NygardsBreen and it's quite an inspirational thing to walk on a glacier and feel the power of that. But also you hear the melt. It's a roar of a melt. That means the, I think Breen is tongue, Neegard is the ninth farm. When it was going forward into the valley, it killed eight farms. It stopped at the ninth farm and it's been receding ever since.

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