600 strip off on glacier to protest about global warming
Normally people put on more clothes when they visit a glacier, but on Saturday 600 people striped off and bared the cold on the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland to protest about global warming. The volunteers posed for renowned photographer Spencer Tunick, famous for capturing nude gatherings in public places, to show that the planet is as fragile and vulnerable as the human body when it's exposed to extreme weather conditions. The stunt was organised by environmental campaigners Greenpeace, who warn that if global warming continues at it's current levels there will be no glaciers left in Switzerland by the year 2080. The Aletsch Glacier retreated 115 metres in just one year (2005-2006). According to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) we only have eight years to stop the current temperature rises, before the trend becomes irreversible. Spenser Tunick wants us all to see that global warming is not an abstract issue, but a real and terrible threat which threatens us all. "I want my images to go more than skin-deep. I want the viewers to feel the vulnerability of their existence and how it relates closely to the sensitivity of the world's glaciers", he said.
