Meltwater Waterfall, Brasvellbreen Ice Wall, SvalbardBrasvellbreen's ice wall runs for nearly fifty kilometres along the eastern coast of Nordaustlandet, and in places it rises thirty metres or more straight out of the sea. This particular section caught my eye because of the meltwater stream cutting down through the face of the glacier, falling freely into the dark teal water below. What struck me most was the layered blue striations in the ice, curved and sculpted by decades of slow compression and