Vanishing Glaciers by Project Pressure - in pictures

Project Pressure is a charity that has been working with renowned artists in a pioneering project to document the world’s vanishing glaciers. This week it brought its touring photographic exhibition to the Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change, Hong Kong, where visitors can experience the different types of glaciers found on each continent and take a video journey to see how glaciers are retreating

Main image: Vanishing Glaciers, Project Pressure Photograph: Project Pressure

  • Sunrise shot of Glacier Du Baounet by Scott Connaroe, who made a significant study of the Alps, where the borders of Switzerland, Italy, Austria and France are based on glaciers. As alpine permafrost retreats higher, terrain disintegrates below and landscapes no longer conform to borders established in the last century
    Sunrise shot of Glacier Du Baounet by Scott Connaroe, who made a significant study of the Alps, where the borders of Switzerland, Italy, Austria and France are based on glaciers and therefore in flux. As alpine permafrost retreats higher, terrain disintegrates below and landscapes no longer conform to borders established in the last century

  • The front of Esmarkbreen, a tidal glacier on Svalbard named after Jens Esmark, a Danish-Norwegian professor who contributed to many of the initial analyses of glaciers. Svalbard sits in the Arctic Ocean, which is experiencing significant effects of climate change. The photographer Corey Arnold is a part-time fisherman, and took this image from the sea
    The front of Esmarkbreen, a tidal glacier on Svalbard named after Jens Esmark, a Danish-Norwegian professor who contributed to many of the initial analyses of glaciers. Svalbard sits in the Arctic Ocean, which is experiencing significant effects of climate change. The photographer Corey Arnold is a part-time fisherman, and took this image from the sea

  • Ritacuba Blanco is the highest peak of Cordillera Oriental in the Andes Mountains of Colombia. The glaciers in South America are retreating, and Klaus Thymann’s image shows the former front of the glacier where the moraine has formed
    Ritacuba Blanco is the highest peak of Cordillera Oriental in the Andes Mountains of Colombia. The glaciers in South America are retreating, and Klaus Thymann’s image shows the former front of the glacier where the moraine has formed

  • The top view of the Donne Glacier which descends down on the east face of Mount Tutoka, south-west New Zealand. This glacier has been undergoing rapid retreat for decades and in 2000 a new unnamed alpine lake was formed
    The top view of the Donne Glacier which descends down on the east face of Mount Tutoka, south-west New Zealand. This glacier has been undergoing rapid retreat for decades and in 2000 a new unnamed alpine lake was formed

  • Peter Funch sourced historic postcards of Mount Rainer to replicate the image at the present time and show glacier retreat
    Comparative images are used to show glacier retreat. Peter Funch sourced historic postcards of Mount Rainer then replicated the image at the present time.

  • The director of Project Pressure, Klaus Thymann, has undertaken expeditions to many remote areas to show the diversity of where glaciers exist and how climate change will have an impact. In 2014 he led an expedition to Iran and captured this image of Mount Sabalan, a dormant volcano with the crater now a small lake that freezes in winter
    The director of Project Pressure, Klaus Thymann, has undertaken expeditions to many remote areas to show the diversity of where glaciers exist and how climate change will have an impact. In 2014 he led an expedition to Iran and captured this image of Mount Sabalan, a dormant volcano with the crater now a small lake that freezes in winter

  • At about 5,000m on Mount Kenya, Simon Norfolk carried a self-made fire torch to create a line of fine showing where the glacier used to extend to
    At about 5,000m on Mount Kenya, Simon Norfolk carried a self-made fire torch to create a line of fine showing where the glacier used to extend to
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