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Based in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, BLUE ICE designs backpacks, harnesses and other minimalist and technical alpine equipment for climbers, mountaineers and skiers.
Blue ice occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier. During compression, air bubbles are squeezed out, so ice crystals enlarge. This enlargement is responsible for the ice's blue colour.
In aviation, blue ice is frozen sewage material that has leaked mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste systems. It is a mixture of human biowaste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude. The name comes from the blue color of the disinfectant.
Antarctica’s interior is circled by glacial ice flows that move outward from the frozen continent’s surface. Imagery collected over Antarctica by satellites like Landsat is typically marked by highly reflective snow and ice, but isolated pockets of wind-swept glacial ice glow with a distinct blue.
Blue ice is relatively rare, covering only around one percent of Antarctica. Another strange aspect of blue ice is that it tends to contain a lot of meteorites. Meteorites crash down all around...
Mar 10, 2022 · These icy miracles: blue ice, ice volcanoes and ice balls, are epic spectacles along the beaches usually seen only in glacial ice. Yet we have them here in Michigan, a land of amazing natural beauty even in the frozen winter.
Mar 8, 2018 · In Straits of Mackinac, which connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, huge chunks of blue ice have appeared, bringing photographers and visitors to the scene, as Cheryl Santa Maria reports for...
Climbing, mountaineering and ski touring backpacks designed with mountain professionals in line with BLUE ICE's minimalist state of mind: technical, efficient and lightweight.
Apr 8, 2021 · Blue is the color of pure glacier ice, compact with few air bubbles, since the air is squeezed out from the weight of the ice. Pure ice has the properties of minerals. Like sapphires, glacial ice reflects the blue colors of the light spectrum, so beautiful blue color reaches our eyes.
Blue ice emerges where wind scours glaciers clean of snow and forms when air bubbles are squeezed out of layers of partially compacted snow left over from previous seasons. The ice appears blue because red and yellow wavelengths of light are absorbed.
