Last Ice Merchant, The (El Último Hielero)

Sandy Patch | 2012 | 14 min.

2013 Official Selection

For over 50 years Baltazar Ushca has harvested the glacial ice of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo. His brothers, both raised as ice merchants, have long since retired from the mountain. This is a story of cultural change and how three brothers have adapted to it.