In the spring of 2017, the president of the United States declared the U.S. would soon leave the Paris Climate Accord. Six weeks after that, an iceberg the size of Delaware broke off the Larsen C Antarctic Ice Shelf. Within four months after that, the U.S. suffered Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, and the most significant California wildfires in its history. In that same year, over 70 species of animals reached the status of critically-endangered or possibly-extinct. Also included in 2017 were a global spate of earthquakes, mudslides, monsoons, and a great deal of melting ice. This takes up the subject of all these disappearances, but rather than through the fast-reporting of news outlets, it tries to “essay” towards understanding: inviting the reader on a research journey: listening in on conversations, making their way through muddy trails, across oceans, and even right up to the surface of the ice. The book engages multiple types of disappearances—from the highly-publicized disappearance of the poet, Craig Arnold, to the lesser-known disappearance of lemmings on ice—and in the end, seeks to understand taxonomies of loss and the furthest limits of naming. Though loss is an oft-written about subject in literary essay collections, disappearance is not, and in the last ten years—during which many significant environmental shifts have taken place—there have been no noteworthy essay collections published that are themed around ice. Beyond this, though there is certainly a growing interest in European nature writing and in nature writing about European places, less has been published (in English) on nature in northern Europe.