Back a few years ago, there seemed to be this explosion of beautiful images coming out of Iceland: images of glass-like, aqua blue ice, shaped in these incredible formations.

As a filmmaker, I instantly thought what an incredible backdrop this would make for the SmugMug Films series.

The one caveat was that instead of static landscape shots, I wanted human involvement and people to interact somehow on the ice. So I contacted award winning photographer Tim Kemple and asked him if he’d ever photographed ice climbers traversing glaciers, icebergs and possibly ice caves. The answer was no, but …we could try…