By the time Chandresh Kedhambadi stepped into the ballroom-sized cavern, he could tell the glacier had been holding its breath for centuries.
In late 2020, Kedhambadi—at that point a Calgary-based chemical engineer with just four years of photography experience—guided his camera deep into the Athabasca Glacier, a colossal tongue of ice spilling down from the Canadian Rockies in western Alberta. Gazing at the translucent surfaces, he found a landscape frozen in time.
“When you look into the ice, the ice bubbles, the ancient air that’s trapped, you know you’re looking at a lot of history,” Kedhambadi, 50, told The Epoch Times. “The very first time I saw a glacier cave, it was like being transported into another world.” …