Taking glacier drilling to it's limits

This video was taken during our hot water drilling campaign on a small glacier in the South face of Alphubel (Switzerland). Parts of the terrain are as steep as 30-40 degree requiring us to build a platform in the ice and snow in order to secure the almost half a ton of drilling equipment.

Drilling at this spot was definitely at the limit not only regarding our own capabilities but also those of the Air Zermatt pilots who needed several attempts to place the material precisely into the small step in the terrain which we've prepared, all of this at almost 4000 m above sea level.