A pioneering glaciologist’s illuminating account of a single day’s work researching in the Arctic, capturing the urgency of his work and revealing the secret history and ever-more-inevitable future of Greenland’s polar ice caps. Tedesco weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape, the epic deeds of great Arctic explorers, and the legends of the rare local populations. The Hidden Life of Ice is more than a diatribe on climate—it’s a moving tribute to a beautiful place that may be gone too soon.