in iceland wants to bring awareness to the fate of oak glacier and the future of the rest of its glaciers so as we hear the country mark the passing of the massive ice sheet the prime minister a climate researchers journalists members of the public attended and they fixed a bronze plaque to a boulder in the former glacier on it was a letter to the future of this is what it says oak is the 1st icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier in the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path this monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done only you know if we did it now the former un human rights commissioner mary robinson now a campaigner for climate justice was also at the ceremony. i feel very humbled to be here to be office because this is an occasion for iceland but in fact it s also for the whole world we re marking the death of
a glacier in the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path this monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done only you know if we did it now the former un human rights commissioner mary robinson now a campaigner for climate justice was also at the ceremony. i feel very humbled to be here to be off because this is an occasion for iceland but in fact it s also for the whole world we re marking the death of a cliff here did we ever think that we would be doing this. one man who might have known what happened before most people is axel sun is an icelandic photojournalist who was spent the last 35 years photographing the world s remote arctic regions his book the acquittal documents the spectacular and rapidly vanishing glaciers of his homeland. and he joins us for more from reykjavik good to see you how do you feel