At 9 am local time, Saturday August 18, six hundred volunteers posed nude on the Aletsch glacier in Switzerland. The photographer was none other than Spencer Tunick, who this time was orchestrating one of his now famous mass nude installations in the name of environmental awareness. Global environmental activist organization Greenpeace funded the shoot as part of a campaign to raise public awareness as to the devastating effects of global warning, particularly on glaciers which are melting fast in every part of the world.
The bare models, who traveled here from various points of the world, had to bear 50 F (10 C) temperatures at an altitude of about 7,000 ft (2300 m). Special care was taken to protect the UNESCO Human Heritage area from potential environmental damage caused by the participants, of course.