Chasing Glaciers. What is this thing? It’s two exceptional women athletes retracing the steps of the first woman to summit some of Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains 100 years ago this summer. It’s an internet event, a micro-site. It’s two filmmakers trying to keep up with these two world-class athletes. It’s satellite feeds, and equipment problems. 21,000 foot mountains being descended for the first time-EVER- on skis. It’s scrambling for visas from the Pakistani government. It’s trying to figure out how to pay for all of this stuff. . .

It’s me, Llewellyn Wells, yeah that’s the whole name, I go by Lew, sitting in GreenFits offices here in Basalt, Colorado wondering if anyone is going to find this little adventure of ours on the internet when it launches in June. I used to produce the TV series The West Wing, and man is this different! My partners Michael Penwarden, John Gartner and Bob Wilson have edited and written for major journals and websites, have launched companies. Why are we doing it?

Because Alison Gannett and Zoe Hart can, and because they care. They care about doing exceptional things as athletes.

But mostly we are all doing this because we care about climate change. The Himalayan Mountains, of which the Karakoram are a sister range, provide the watershed for something like 15% of the world’s population. 15%. What’s that equal, 750 million people or something? That’s a lot of people. And Alison and Zoe are going to trek across some of the world’s largest glaciers. Glaciers that are in grave danger of disappearing in the upcoming decades. That’s why we are doing this.

We’re Chasing Glaciers. We’re chasing hope. Tune in to www.chasingglaciers.com beginning on June 8th. Let’s have a little fun and raise a little awareness. This is our first stop on The Global Cooling Tour. Assuming we survive this one, who knows where we might turn up next?