Icefield Explorer
by Teresa Zieba
Title
Icefield Explorer
Artist
Teresa Zieba
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Welcome to the Brewster Ice Explorer, a fifteen-metre-long multi-passenger behemoth that looks like Grave Digger.
It’s a beast, standing just under four meters high, and fitted with six gargantuan Goodyear Terra tires, each one over one and a half meters in diameter.
Shale, sand, mud bogs, ice, and snow are no problem for the Ice Explorer.
It’s a quintessentially Canadian vehicle, massive in size, capable of handling everything you can throw at it, tested by hostile terrain, yet careful towards its environment and eager to showcase the best parts of this country to the world.
There are just twenty-three of these machines in the world and twenty-two of them are located in Banff, Alberta, where they are in near-constant use ferrying tourists deep into the Canadian wild, right out onto the Athabasca Glacier. The last one is customized and permanently located at McMurdo base in the Antarctic.
Photographed at Columbia Icefield, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Featured in the following FAA groups:
Polish Photographers Platform - Oct 26, 2017
Lady Photographers and Artists - Oct 28, 2017
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October 25th, 2017
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Comments (30)
Teresa Zieba
Karen, thank you for the feature in "Lady Photographers and Artists" group. It's an honor.
Teresa Zieba
Mariola, thank you for the feature in "Polish Photographers Platform: group. Much appreciated.
Chris Fletcher
I was on that exact glacier two weeks ago, can't be same day as you have blue skies, I have -5 and 50mph winds!
Teresa Zieba replied:
Thank you. The wind is almost always present. I was very lucky with the weather. A year before they cancelled all tours and it was in July.