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 June 3, 2025, 1 pm EDT updated June 11, 2025 1111 am EDT
Transcend-ice - A hundred thousand years of history in your glass as Arctic Ice makes a profitable venture of climate adaptation
Climate adaptation requires engagement of the human will to forge a way forward through the destructive forces reshaping our planet. In the north, the climate effects are galloping ahead of the models. Global news agency AFP reports today, "Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland", according to the scientific network, World Weather Attribution (WWA). "The Arctic region is on the frontline of global warming, heating up four times faster than the rest of the planet since 1979, according to a 2022 study in scientific journal Nature.
Ice rocks have been breaking away from the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, a state of brilliant energy passing as quickly as our lives. Each rock and berg drifts southward on the ocean current to melt in the sea, raising the ocean volume, diluting the salinity, challenging coastline communities around the globe.
The Greenland ice sheet was melting at the dizzying rate of 8000 cubic meters per second at the initial writing of this article. This is 120 shipping containers, a train a mile long. Hurtling down the tracks at sixty miles per hour, this train will keep you waiting at the crossing for a full minute as it rushes by. We counted not one train, but sixty trains all at once. During the month of May 2025, that number has blown up. A minute is a long time to wait at a rail crossing, yet passes so quickly when you are at rest or recreation. Now can you hear the roar? It is 1000 mile-long freight trains, not for one minute, for the rest of time on earth as we know it.
On the rocks
Anders Duus Asmussen is the Lodge Manager at Ilimanaq Lodge on the main island of southwest Greenland. Speaking of the ice fields flowing south along the Greenland coast, "We can confirm the presence of clear ice, also called black ice here, because it appears as transparent therefore dark when in the waters."
When Ittu Lilliendahl was suddenly catapulted off the deck of his vessel into the frigid sea, he spent an agonizing two thousand, four hundred seconds dying. In that time, as he waited for the pain to end, 19 million cubic meters of the ice sheet melted away. Lilliendahl was rescued in time to survive the incident, turning his terrifying experience into an opportunity to engage another kind of force. Joining with Samir Ben Tabib, the two have developed a profitable business venture, the purest ice in the world says Ben Tabib, tastes like childhood.
Arctic Ice is walking back sea level rise one ice rock at a time, milling a luxury product from the ancient ice. Asmussen confirms Greenlanders have been picking up the black ice with nets, for their own use, in drinks as an example. The business of ice harvesting with a ready market in the luxury clubs and restaurants of Dubai has brought a new opportunity to local crews, contracted for the seasonal harvest.
The remarkable product elevates an otherwise timeless and priceless experience for the culinary adventurers. Tested for purity at certified labs in Greenland and at the destination, 20 shipping containers are collected for the freezer in Dubai. A year supply recovered from a fraction of a second worth of melting, perhaps saving the life of a micro-mariner. Arctic Ice employs specialized equipment from Japan to produce a smooth sphere, or triangle or rod, any geometric you please.
Visit Arctic Ice, here.
As for the connoisseurs Nahaté, Dubai the naturally sculpted presentation is preferred. Could there be a better way to blend a beverage? We think not.
Andrey Bolshakov is a purveyor of delicacies for the Nahaté establishment in Dubai, making decadent the pourable. When the Chief Mixologist and Baccarrat Bar Ambassador was asked to facilitate the VIP lounge at the Monaco Formula 1 race last year, Bolshakov raised up a new standard for the entertainment of the most privileged. As Gerald Donaldson puts in in his Formula 1 Autobiographies, "Only comparatively few fans are able to attend Grands Prix in person, where the sights, sounds and smells, the all-pervasive aura of drama and the sheer magnitude of the spectacle amount to a sensory experience that can be almost tasted and touched." For the VIP fans of the 2024 Monaco race, the touch of Arctic Ice in their beverages may have been the step from perfection to zen state.
We asked Bolshakov how he came upon Arctic Ice. "Instagram. Four days before the event." A last-minute flight to Greenland to pick up the cargo in special freezer boxes and on to Nice. Customs in France was a challenge. A zealous officer took the VIP bartender to task. Bolshakov says he is known to travel with various and sundry rare ingredients on the regular, but this trip seemed doomed. "Cause me to dump this water, if you must", Bolshakov conceded. Thankfully, the story did not end there. The circuit was completed. Arctic Ice was served at Monaco, making it to the Nahaté menu from there.
Your hosts at Nahaté (Home) have truly gone to the ends of the earth to curate an evening for the ages. Gather with your people. Prepare to be elevated.
Once perfection has become commonplace and wealth has become mundane, one struggles to experience the next level thrill. Now the very wealthy can break through luxury fatigue with a next-level dimension to experience. To enter the zone fully requires presence, and readiness for wonder. Settling into the place set for you, time must now be suspended. Passion and art greet you, wrapped up in genuine intention for your delight, dynamic forces captured in and radiating from the finest, Baccarat crystals on the table, reflected by crystals above, to encircle your company in goodwill for an unforgettable night.
This is not a spreadsheet exercise. Every detail in the room is intentional, every ingredient hand-selected and artfully arranged. The particular brand of hospitality of your hosts, along with the Chefs, Master Distillers and Tobacconists Jacob and Co weave passion for perfection together with a desire for your transcendent experience here. The evening will be symphonic, resonant with character, floating on layered harmonies of each contributor. Once seated in this timeless dimension Nahaté, everything has changed. These moments will not be reproduced, for you are no longer the same. Add this night to your collection of memorable moments, until the next opportunity to ascend.
In April this year, cast from the imagination of Fleming, a Vesper martini prepared as it were for the mysterious character, Bond. The cascade of ice crystals on metal, sluicing spirits and shards of frozen water in the expert hands of a Master Mixologist. This ice is a remarkable treasure, an ancient record of a hundred thousand years, a copy of ages, captured eras comingled with distilled perfection.
This cocktail was auctioned off for a whopping sell price of $41,160 USD. Served in rare crystal stemware circa 1937, in celebration of the 260th anniversary of Baccarat; a special edition blend of Patrone created for the occasion, picked up from the Master Distiller in Mexico; the famous Vesper vermouth Kina Lillet circa 1950, one of four remaining bottles in the world picked up from a private collection, shaken (not stirred) with Arctic Ice.
If you drop in to Nahaté, on the third floor of the International Finance Centre in Dubai, make sure to have a drink on the rocks, and tell them we sent you.
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