One woman squares her desire to become a mother against a trip to Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica and the inevitable fact of climate change.
. But because no one has ever before been to Thwaites’s calving edge–the place where it discharges ice into the sea–many of our predictions about how it will behave are just that: predictions. Scientific models married to our increasing fear.
The oldest woman in the group leans over and whispers in my ear, “Try everything on to make sure it fits.” Then she disappears into the communal changing room, which is really just a couple pieces of plywood tacked together. I follow her inside, pull a well-worn pair of work pants the color of pond scum from my bag. “Nothing like a pair of Carhartts to remind you that you have an ass and most men don’t,” I say to the women around me.
But I also know that sometimes, perhaps even more than I would like to admit, what I have been taught to fear and what I ought to fear are not one in the same. A slender green snake recently crossed my path, and I flinched from fright. I have absorbed a certain type of story about the threat serpents pose to people, the one in which they cause us to fall from grace. And that story ripples through my body, turns me tentative, whenever something slithers before me.
The lonesome berg rides low in the water. Like whipped meringue piped into a lopsided point, the whole thing lists to the right. Its closest side is guttered and blue, the top dove gray. My eyes hold on to the ice, though I don’t know what to do with it exactly, this scraggly, unorthodox thing. A few big rollers come through and throw themselves against the berg, spray lofting into the air.
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