What is Iceland without ice? That question, once unimaginable, has become urgent as climate change shrinks the country’s glaciers to the vanishing point.
The Nordic nation has already bid farewell to dozens of its smaller glaciers – the first to go being Okjökull (also known as Ok glacier), in 2014. Icelandic poet, novelist and essayist Andri Snær Magnason was tasked with commemorating Ok, his words etched into copper and fastened to rock uncovered by the glacier’s retreating ice.
Magnuson’s writings and his family’s rich history in the once frozen terrain of Iceland form the basis of Sara Dosa’s
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