I read the above story in complete horror. It’s amazing that I felt that way considering I knew the news first hand. Eliot and I, and four friends, went on an expedition through Greenland last September.

We saw the ice melting and witnessed temperatures rising. We really thought at the time that the United States would have taken climate change much more seriously by now. No such luck.

The following documents our journey.

The following photos by Eliot Hess