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Global Warming for the BBC and Discovery
Michael Brown in a crevasse as appearing in Time Magazine, the New Yorker
and others. Photo by Nicolas Brown.
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Climate Chaos film has won
the grand prize at the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula,
plus some 6 other categories. The films has also been designated
the most important science films of 2006 by the European Broadcast
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Global Warming: What you need
to Know with
Tom Brokaw
Airing July 22 on the
Discovery Channel
and
BBC: Climate Chaos
a two part series on
BBC One;
Are We Changing Planet Earth? and
Can We Save Planet Earth?
Brothers Nicolas
Brown (Director) and Michael Brown on the remote Nef Glacier in Patagonia filming the effects of changing climate for the BBC and Discovery.
Photo of Michael Brown
inside a moulin by Nicolas Brown 2006 |
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A two part series airing on BBC and The Discovery Channel.
Directed by
Nicolas
Brown
Produced by
Jeremy Bristow
With help from
Serac Adventure Films
and Michael Brown
BBC One in collaboration with
The Discovery Channel are making a film about the hot topic of Global
Warming and Climate Change. Director Nicolas Brown is traveling
the world looking at evidence and talking to scientists about the story.
Logististis in Chile provided by Graham Hornsey and Carmen Gloria
Monjes.
New Photo Gallery
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Film crew shooting
Michael Brown as he also shoots while rappelling into a moulin.
Photo © Nicolas Brown 2006 |
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The entrance to a
moulin from below. |
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moulin |
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moulin with small river |
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Michael Brown in a
moulin.
Photo by Stephan
Harrison 2006 |
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Michael climbing out of the moulin for the
camera. Photo © Nicolas Brown 2006 |
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A spoof of Chris O'Donnell in 'Vertical
Limit.' Michael leaps as Stephan looks on. Photo © Nicolas Brown 2006 |
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You'll have to see the film to get the frame
in between. Photo © Nicolas Brown 2006 |
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Si Wagen shoots as Michael rappels into a
large moulin. Photo © Nicolas Brown 2006 |
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Michael shooting the view from the pit.
Photo © Nicolas Brown 2006 |
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BBC director Nicolas Brown chose the Nef
Glacier as a location because these remote glaciers in Southern Chile are
retreating faster than any in the world. Photo ©
Nicolas Brown 2006 |
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Nicolas Brown climbing the ice. |
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Lago Nef and the
Nef Glacier. At the end of the trip it made a great swimming hole. Nick is
hoping that we don't publish the pictures of him swimming. |
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Sorry Nick, that looks cold! |
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Si Wagen |
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Los Leones Glacier
One of the first priorities was to scout for locations. We
did this in Willy Stone's piper twin. To
tell the story of melting glaciers in an exciting way we needed a glacier that had
either crevasses or moulins to explore. |
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The Nef Glacier and Lago Nef
In the 1930's this lake did not yet exist. The Nef Glacier is
shrinking and this lake is the result. |
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Helicopter Pilot
Mauricio |
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Olaf Wuendrich came along to help
Michael Brown. Michael was in charge of 'Health and Safety' operations on
the glacier as well as a cameraman and 'Action Hero' for the film. Here Olaf
is crammed in the back of the helicopter with piles of gear. |
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Rio Baker The
team flew in to the Nef Valley from Cochrane over the Baker River Valley.
This part of the Baker River will be under water soon as part of a large
hydroelectric project. |
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Confluence of the Baker and the Nef
The Baker from the left is clear and blue below a series of
huge lakes. The Nef springs from under the Nef Glacier and is chock full of
sediment. Combined they flow as a huge blue grey river. |
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Helicopter arriving at Base Camp. We used a
Llama Helicopter, one of the best for mountain flying. |
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Base Camp |
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Nicolas Brown waking up in base camp |
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Michael Brown was also the cook.
Shown here with a nifty new kind of stove that boils water very quickly and
efficiently. Here is the web site for
JetBoil Photo by Nicolas Brown |
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Glaciologist Dr. Stephan Harrison and Nicolas
Brown discuss the story of changing climate. |
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Dr. Stephan Harrison, glaciologist. |
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The Film Crew on the ice. |
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Soundman Stephen Tottingham, director Nicolas
Brown and cameraman Si Wagen. |
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Colorado shoot at the Ice Core
Laboritory |
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Dr. Mark Serrez, Michael Brown, Molly Tait
and Nicolas Brown in the Ice Core Lab in Lakewood Colorado. Dr Serrez spoke
about the data contained in ice cores and how the concentration of CO2 in
the atmosphere is higher than it has been in 600,000 years. Photo ©
Dave Schaff 2006 |
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Soundman Dave Schaff, Nicolas Brown and
Michael Brown. The temperature in the room where the ice cores are stored is
a balmy -36 degrees Celsius. Photo © Molly Tait 2006 |
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Michael and Nicolas Brown
Photo © Molly Tait 2006 |
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Molly staying warm |
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Michael frosted Photo © Nicolas Brown 2006 |
