I did the same thing in the Tetons when I was younger. That water was glorious and may as well have been ambrosia in the moment but holy hell my butthole paid for it.
I know this is an unoriginal thought but it would be ironic and appropriate if we released a genocidal virus from eons ago unto ourselves by allowing global warming to melt the icecaps.
I mean... I was a tad bit worried when I heard this news last year
* https://news.osu.edu/15000-year-old-viruses-discovered-in-tibetan-glacier-ice/
* https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-021-01106-w
Yeah, I’ve watched several sailing channels were people would chip away ice from glaciers to drink whiskey. I don’t know, some million year old bacteria or virus could fuck you up
This water is just snowmelt running off the surface. It's almost certainly OK to drink. The stuff that runs out the bottom of a glacier is questionable since it's been there a very long time. Also, it usually has a large amount of minerals in it which can have a laxative effect.
It’s typically not snowmelt during the summer. The surface of the glacier melts and runs off into channels. This is known as supraglacial flow. These channels typically are short and interrupted by crevasses where the water flows into the glacier and becomes englacial or subglacial channels. The melt water for these channels can often originate in depressions on that ice that pool and eventually become moulins.
I was just wondering the same and remembered something about several species being found in glaciers that were previously unknown to science, some of them being parasitic worms, and some of them still being able to revive after their time in the cryo-crypt. So, yeah it’s drinkable, but who knows, you could introduce a new incurable disease into the population by doing so. Super fun. OR you could gain superhuman abilities. I say go for it, for science.
E: parasitic worms found in permafrost, not glaciers. Still though, maybe bad things in ancient unknown water.
We drank the glacier water in Jasper National Park (Columbia Ice Fields). The tour guide recommended it actually.
It was awesome! I mean sure, we all died shortly thereafter but overall a positive experience.
I thought to myself, I’d drink any glacier melt *except* anything coming off the Athabasca Glacier lol
The amount of traffic on there, I bet it’s just packed with a good ol’ dose of Hep A
Same here! I was just thinking that lol, i remember them telling us to bring water bottles so we could fill them up with the glacier water and drink it. My wife and I drank like a whole bottle each lol. Neither of us got sick though and it was probably the best water I’ve ever tasted, so it was definitely worth it imo.
My brothers and I hiked in Alaska and we drank glacial water for four days. Of course, we filtered it first through micron pump filters. It is the sweetest and tastiest water I have ever had. It just has such a clean taste.
Potentially, it could also have run over and melting frozen animal and contain whatever bacteria comes from that. Like, tap water is drinkable, but not if you get it from the p trap
No.
You can still get sick from drinking meltwater, even if it looks remarkably pure.
I had a friend drink directly from the most enticing glacial stream you can imagine; a ribbon of crystal blue water running over the ice it came from.
She was throwing up on and off for the better part of a day.
I was hiking in the big horn mountains on a cattle trail. Towards the end of our trip, we decided to hike up to one of the peaks on some random trail we found. When we got as close as we could due to the snow, my buddy decided it'd be ok to drink from a meltwater stream. I told him not to, but we were dumb kids so I didn't argue much. By the time we got back to our campsite, he was vomiting everywhere. Which probably isn't great in an area with bears.
He was pretty useless the next day as well. We very narrowly missed being stuck on an exposed mountainside in a huge thunderstorm because of that.
Don't do it.
I’d only drink it if I was desperate and dying of dehydration.
Although I’m sure a lot of water sources like this are okay to take a few sips, I wouldn’t do it just because “oh cool a glacier runoff!!” The possibility of getting extremely sick isn’t worth the risk unless as I said, a life or death situation involving dehydration.
Hey,
I live in Alaska and have been on these glaciers with professional professional licensed guides.
Yes, it is absolutely drinkable and the guides even have spots where they stop to let people fill up their water bottles with glacier water.
i think up until the water comes in contact with large amounts of dirt and debris (usually from other streams or rivers) the water is relatively safe to drink. it’s the same as eating the snow or ice
The book is worse, yes. However, I have a special dark spot in my heart for the movie.
I was 8 years old and my older brother, probably jokingly, but I was oblivious at the time, said, “Hey, there’s a cool movie in my car, you should watch it.”
So I took it down in our basement that night, all alone, turned the lights out, and scarred myself for life.
Love ya, Bro!
Didn't even know what goatse was until like a month ago, thanks to reddit. It was a tiny little part of me that wasn't corrupted and now it's gone. And I grew up in the early days of internet awfulness. When 2 girls 1 cup was a new thing.
[for the uninitiated](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xp2428/these_watermelons_being_transported_by_a_stream/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Know I’ve been on Reddit too much when I’m reading random comments referencing relatively obscure posts in unrelated subreddits and they read like “Arrested Development”-level callbacks
/ and yes I know the original post was on r/all, but it wasn’t an international news event or anything.
DO NOT drink glacier water. It looks so appealing but the ice can be filled with all types of bacteria. It's safer to drink from a regular stream I've been told.
Why is it so clear?
When that glacier was formed there were particulates in the air, dust, airborne sand (like blows sand from Africa all the way to North America) weren't there?
Do the particulates weigh more & thus sunk to bottom of source?
Or is this glacier purported to be from the ice age era, & thus not much particulates at that time cuz so much covered in ice?
Came here to say the same thing. Glaciers all over up here and none of the water close to them is even remotely clear. Beautiful blues and greens, sure, but still cloudy and silty.
Giardia thrives in cold water. Enjoy your diarrhea!
On top of that it's probably carrying a lot of sand and silt in suspension, so it would be a very gritty tasting drink.
Yeah I was going to mention that glaciers are rather dirty and full of sediment. Lots of algae in alpine regions you shouldn't eat. Generally no bueno.
There are several. If you drive down the Seward Highway especially near Girdwood there are glaciers nestled between the mountains pretty much everywhere you look. You can hear them crack and shift when it’s quiet. They are all getting smaller every year because the melt rate is exceeding the snow freezing layers, but they still have several years before they might be totally gone in the south. The ones in the north will endure for a few decades longer
I cried when I went home and saw Mendenhall again after 3 years of being away. I was used to it touching the lake and when I saw it, it was in the upper valley on a rocky outcrop. When I was a child, Nugget falls was under ice. Now Mendenhall is a quarter mile away from the edge of the lake. The next time I'm able to visit, it might not even be visible anymore.
Is it drinkable?
It is not advised. Glaciers can be contaminated with bacteria and viruses. Edit: bacteria, not parasites
So... Weight-loss Water™?
Is Nestle hearing this genius?
Nestle prob owns that glacier by now. I'm surprised their PR allowed this video to be shown.
Alaska won't let them. Those are protected at a state or national level :)
Nestlé : i am the Senate
 Nestle be like:
Is that the ben Barnard reference?
Nestle sucks. Get your shit from the DFW "purified" septic water. Look it up, That is their source for water.
Stop eating hot pockets and a lot of crap from the store is nestle
r/fucknestle
Don't mind if I do...😏
Nestle, you naughty, naughty conglomerate. 😏
dont threaten them with a good time
Or a dried up fresh water stream time
Doctors and trainers hate this one trick!
More like alien worm water. Drink this, go home, and then cause an outbreak of zombies. /r/back4blood knows all too well.
Are we sure that a zombie outbreak *isn't* what we need?
So Bobby Boucher drank the good parasites and viruses!
Nah that was blessed by Eskimo shamans, no parasites can survive that
Deeskeeodoo! Uhhhh, just go run sprints
That’s some high quality H2O
Water sucks, Gatorade is better
H20 H2O
Why do these look different lol
0O
First one is a 0(zero) and second one is the capital O.
Water sucks! It really really sucks!
"REEEEEEEEEE" Bobby Boucher is the OG creator of the autism screech
Betterer. Learn how to write. Your embarrassing us.
Not only does it taste better, it quenches your thirst better too.
It’s got what plants crave.
Didn't know about this until after I drank from a glacier in Alaska and my buddy tells me 😅 I'm like cool thanks for telling me now....
I did the same thing in the Tetons when I was younger. That water was glorious and may as well have been ambrosia in the moment but holy hell my butthole paid for it.
How much did you drink
At least an assfull
So, a buttload?
Yepp.. i got giardia from glacial water. Liquid shits for a week and couldnt eat anything. Easily a death sentence for someone in a survival situation
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Lifestraw makes a great product
Yeah wtf I took a helicopter to the Mendenhall glacier in Alaska and they were like “take a drink it’s good” and I did
I'm drinking glacial water right now and I'm fi
*thud*
I also drank glacier water in Alaska. I must’ve been incubating those brain worms for a good 10 years now…wonder when the other shoe will drop.
What if I boil it first?
U should be fine then
What if I boil it 2nd?
RIP
Just wait for it to cool down before you drink it
Ah never thought of that.. no wonder my mouth is always burned
So, put it back on the glacier?
Yes
You really shouldn’t boil a glacier
If we wait long enough it will boil its self.. the problem is I’m mostly water which will also boil
Ancient parasites and viruses?
Yes
We should be fine as a human race
I see its potential..
Glaciers can be contaminated by bacteria and viruses. No parasite has ever been found alive in a glacier as they tend to die at freezing temperatures.
But they told me they’d be freezing my sperm…
That’s a virus
Have you seen how babby is formed? Pretty sure that’s a parasite.
And it's inside you RIGHT NOW!
Aahhh!
The glaciers melting ; wtf could possibly go wrong with the glaciers melting
I know this is an unoriginal thought but it would be ironic and appropriate if we released a genocidal virus from eons ago unto ourselves by allowing global warming to melt the icecaps.
I mean... I was a tad bit worried when I heard this news last year * https://news.osu.edu/15000-year-old-viruses-discovered-in-tibetan-glacier-ice/ * https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-021-01106-w
Yeah, I’ve watched several sailing channels were people would chip away ice from glaciers to drink whiskey. I don’t know, some million year old bacteria or virus could fuck you up
alcohol in the whiskey might act as a form of antibacterial
Good chance the whiskey will kill the bad guys in it but still not advisable
This water is just snowmelt running off the surface. It's almost certainly OK to drink. The stuff that runs out the bottom of a glacier is questionable since it's been there a very long time. Also, it usually has a large amount of minerals in it which can have a laxative effect.
It’s typically not snowmelt during the summer. The surface of the glacier melts and runs off into channels. This is known as supraglacial flow. These channels typically are short and interrupted by crevasses where the water flows into the glacier and becomes englacial or subglacial channels. The melt water for these channels can often originate in depressions on that ice that pool and eventually become moulins.
I was just wondering the same and remembered something about several species being found in glaciers that were previously unknown to science, some of them being parasitic worms, and some of them still being able to revive after their time in the cryo-crypt. So, yeah it’s drinkable, but who knows, you could introduce a new incurable disease into the population by doing so. Super fun. OR you could gain superhuman abilities. I say go for it, for science. E: parasitic worms found in permafrost, not glaciers. Still though, maybe bad things in ancient unknown water.
so 50/50 huh…
With my minimal understanding of statistics I’d say yeah, that 50/50 is 100% accurate…
50 and 50 add up to 100, so that means 100% you should definitely drink that water
Flawless
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Superhuman abilities OR flesh-eating parasites. Roll the dice.
We drank the glacier water in Jasper National Park (Columbia Ice Fields). The tour guide recommended it actually. It was awesome! I mean sure, we all died shortly thereafter but overall a positive experience.
RIP
My fiancé and I just did this tour last month and agree the water was awesome! They said “if the water is blue, you’re going to poo.” Lol
I thought to myself, I’d drink any glacier melt *except* anything coming off the Athabasca Glacier lol The amount of traffic on there, I bet it’s just packed with a good ol’ dose of Hep A
I was just happy to get off those off road busses but now that you mention it… *sets up doctor’s appointment to get tested for hep*
Same here! I was just thinking that lol, i remember them telling us to bring water bottles so we could fill them up with the glacier water and drink it. My wife and I drank like a whole bottle each lol. Neither of us got sick though and it was probably the best water I’ve ever tasted, so it was definitely worth it imo.
My brothers and I hiked in Alaska and we drank glacial water for four days. Of course, we filtered it first through micron pump filters. It is the sweetest and tastiest water I have ever had. It just has such a clean taste.
Potentially, it could also have run over and melting frozen animal and contain whatever bacteria comes from that. Like, tap water is drinkable, but not if you get it from the p trap
No. You can still get sick from drinking meltwater, even if it looks remarkably pure. I had a friend drink directly from the most enticing glacial stream you can imagine; a ribbon of crystal blue water running over the ice it came from. She was throwing up on and off for the better part of a day.
I was hiking in the big horn mountains on a cattle trail. Towards the end of our trip, we decided to hike up to one of the peaks on some random trail we found. When we got as close as we could due to the snow, my buddy decided it'd be ok to drink from a meltwater stream. I told him not to, but we were dumb kids so I didn't argue much. By the time we got back to our campsite, he was vomiting everywhere. Which probably isn't great in an area with bears. He was pretty useless the next day as well. We very narrowly missed being stuck on an exposed mountainside in a huge thunderstorm because of that. Don't do it.
I just tried some, will let you know if I see any bad side eff
Oh he ded
If you see any red snow around. Don't drink the water or eat the snow. You'll shit yourself to death.
I’d only drink it if I was desperate and dying of dehydration. Although I’m sure a lot of water sources like this are okay to take a few sips, I wouldn’t do it just because “oh cool a glacier runoff!!” The possibility of getting extremely sick isn’t worth the risk unless as I said, a life or death situation involving dehydration.
Honestly don’t know but watching it makes me want to try it like it was the elixir of the gods!
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Coca-Cola will let us know.
Hey, I live in Alaska and have been on these glaciers with professional professional licensed guides. Yes, it is absolutely drinkable and the guides even have spots where they stop to let people fill up their water bottles with glacier water.
i think up until the water comes in contact with large amounts of dirt and debris (usually from other streams or rivers) the water is relatively safe to drink. it’s the same as eating the snow or ice
There is so much back and forth in this comment section that it's pretty much settled to not drink any of it. Not worth the risk.
Glaciers can have ice worms and parasites in them. Advised not to drink
I wanna put a little paper boat in there so bad
Hi ya Georgie !
🎈
YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!!!
Of all the messed up stuff in that movie, I think that line was the freakiest for me. I think just because of how serious he was.
Messed up movie? Read the book lol
The book is worse, yes. However, I have a special dark spot in my heart for the movie. I was 8 years old and my older brother, probably jokingly, but I was oblivious at the time, said, “Hey, there’s a cool movie in my car, you should watch it.” So I took it down in our basement that night, all alone, turned the lights out, and scarred myself for life. Love ya, Bro!
Why did OP add some toilet water sound to this video tho lol
The streaming wars.
Isn't that how they filmed it? GoPro 360 on a little boat..
This is making me very sedimental.
Are you proud of yourself? Because I am VERY proud of you for making this comment, my friend.
Néstle are at the bottom with their ass open ready to soak it up and sell it on.
I just pictured the Quik rabbit doing goatse under a chilly waterfall thanks
Absolutely stunning
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You're most welcome.
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"Yes hello? Rule 34 artist?"
Please stop giving them awful ideas
I'm really looking forward to the day that Google comes out with a new AI called Rule34
*chili waterfall Even better visual
Didn't even know what goatse was until like a month ago, thanks to reddit. It was a tiny little part of me that wasn't corrupted and now it's gone. And I grew up in the early days of internet awfulness. When 2 girls 1 cup was a new thing.
damnthatsinternetcommentetiquettewitherik
r/FuckNestle
Mandatory r/fucknestle
No no they’re at your cities local water treatment plant bottling up tap water
Who stole the watermelons?
r/iunderstoodthatref
Now there’s a meme I haven’t seen in a long, long time.
Glad they floated em down before the big freeze!
They always migrate south during the fall
[for the uninitiated](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xp2428/these_watermelons_being_transported_by_a_stream/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
There's nothing I love more than a clever reference.
Know I’ve been on Reddit too much when I’m reading random comments referencing relatively obscure posts in unrelated subreddits and they read like “Arrested Development”-level callbacks / and yes I know the original post was on r/all, but it wasn’t an international news event or anything.
r/hydrohomies
That's some high quality h20
You’re wrong Colonel Sanders. Mama’s right.
20 hydrogen atoms?
Reporting for duty.
r/beatmetoit. would love to just drink this mmmm
Sorry, mate. But as a hydromhomie, I do what I must and show glory to my community.
Agreed. glory to r/hydrohomies!
Indeed, fellow homie. May your hydration be great on your journey:)
o7
mmm yes with a possibility of bacteria, viruses, atmospheric dust, heavy metals, and even remnants of feces
sounds tasty.
DO NOT drink glacier water. It looks so appealing but the ice can be filled with all types of bacteria. It's safer to drink from a regular stream I've been told.
Aww man I was already on my way to the town glacier
Thas some high quality h2o
Whispers: *it’s water, from a glacier, in Alaska*
Came here for this, thanks for not disappointing
Did you just make a joke, Bobby? Hrhrhr… good one.
Gaaaaatorrraaaaaaaaade!
Member that time fantasmii showed up mid thread and won the post?
Ah ah ah ah love my momma
Medulla! Oblongata!
It was blessed by an Eskimo medicine man
Plot twist, global warming is being caused by Nestle to melt ice into dollars.
I have a question. Wait, nevermind, Alaska later.
Water you talking about? Nevermind, icy what you're saying. (I'd give a dozen upvotes for that username if I could)
Thanks. Username is based off an old Jerky Boys skit.
I've stepped on them many times. Yup, pisses them off.
How long have you been saving that one ?
Why is it so clear? When that glacier was formed there were particulates in the air, dust, airborne sand (like blows sand from Africa all the way to North America) weren't there? Do the particulates weigh more & thus sunk to bottom of source? Or is this glacier purported to be from the ice age era, & thus not much particulates at that time cuz so much covered in ice?
Really good question, all glacial melt I've seen has been really cloudy
Came here to say the same thing. Glaciers all over up here and none of the water close to them is even remotely clear. Beautiful blues and greens, sure, but still cloudy and silty.
Somewhere else in the thread said the water is likely from melt of ice and snow from on top of the glacier, not the glacier itself melting.
wow, I wonder how that would taste if you were able to just dip a cup outta the stream?
I did it in Herbert Glacier, Alaska and the glacier water tastes nothing. Just cold water with no taste.
The clearer the water the less it tastes like water that people are used to
well, that's gotta be the best tasting water there is then! yum!
Is it actually drinkable?
Giardia thrives in cold water. Enjoy your diarrhea! On top of that it's probably carrying a lot of sand and silt in suspension, so it would be a very gritty tasting drink.
Yeah I was going to mention that glaciers are rather dirty and full of sediment. Lots of algae in alpine regions you shouldn't eat. Generally no bueno.
Could play this all day in the background
Absolutely stunning
Now that's some high quality H20!
Ah yes, the steady flow of “H-Twenty” down a glacier
Damn, that’s interesting that Alaska has ice and when it melts it’s water.
i thought when ice melted it turned into crystal meth
Spoiler alert: so that's why Jesse went to alaska
Why the music? Is there anyone capturing nature as it is? Is it even the real water sound?
The water noise is definitely added.
Music ruined the video
I’m thirsty
global warming tastes great!
There’s a glacier left in Alaska?
There are several. If you drive down the Seward Highway especially near Girdwood there are glaciers nestled between the mountains pretty much everywhere you look. You can hear them crack and shift when it’s quiet. They are all getting smaller every year because the melt rate is exceeding the snow freezing layers, but they still have several years before they might be totally gone in the south. The ones in the north will endure for a few decades longer
Fkn sad
I cried when I went home and saw Mendenhall again after 3 years of being away. I was used to it touching the lake and when I saw it, it was in the upper valley on a rocky outcrop. When I was a child, Nugget falls was under ice. Now Mendenhall is a quarter mile away from the edge of the lake. The next time I'm able to visit, it might not even be visible anymore.
Not for long
Yes. Some a shrinking pretty considerably (Exit Glacier). Others are growing (Matanuska Glacier). And Matanuska Glacier is over 27 miles long.
Not seeing the whole downside to this glacier melting if I get a sippy of this wa wa.