These are shots of the cliffs near the edge of the Igloolik Cemetery in Nunavut, Canada. The brittle Sandstone cliffs thrust out of the arctic ocean some ten thousand years ago crumble more and more every year as water permeates throughout the many fissures and cracks.
Nikon Coolpix P900 - f5 0.004 98.1mm ISO 280
Once that water freezes over the long, harsh winters it expands, fracturing the rocks into thousands and thousands of pieces of rubble. As the snow recedes in spring, the freshly cracked cliffs collapse.
Some of the gravesites that sit atop this plateau are teetering on the edge of falling off the cliff over the coming decades.
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