Lynn Martel

Dome Glacier, Jasper National Park, July 2025. #glaciers #unglacieryearcanada #protectourwinterscanada #sharecangeo #guardiansoftheice

Walking on many-centuries-old glacier ice is always a special experience. ❄️🩵❄️ But between 2021 and 2024, melt rates of glaciers in western Canada, US NW, and Switzerland, doubled compared to melt rates of the previous decade. Report published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
#glaciers

Columbine in the alpine.
Jasper National Park.

It's not easy to write about how it feels to watch our glaciers melt, places I and fellow mountaineers have shared adventures and memories. But this exquisite, haunting photo exhibit made it easier. Read my feature story in Alberta Views. #glaciers #unglacieryearcanada #protectourwinterscanada

Any day walking on a glacier is a very good day💙❄💙 @unglacieryearcanada @protectourwinterscanada @rm_books @guardiansoftheice #glaciers #storiesofice #glacierblue

MELTDOWN - Alberta Views The MELTDOWN image shows dingy ice clinging to rocky slopes like a threadbare sheet. Compared to historical photos in the Whyte’s bookshop...

Alberta’s Rockies hold more than 1,100 glaciers, including the best-known and most accessible glaciers in the country.
“The latest scientific research regarding the state and fate of our glaciers originates here."
albertaviews.ca/meltdown/
@lynnmartel.bsky.social
#climatechange #ABpoli #CDNpoli

I'm excited and honoured to be in this stellar line-up of fellow United Nations International Year of Glaciers Preservation creatives at this event recognizing and celebrating our beautiful, fascinating and valuable -and melting- glaciers.
@unglacieryearcanada @protectourwinterscanada
@rm_books

So pleased to have my feature about the Meltdown photo exhibit and the 2025 UN International Year of Glaciers Preservation as the cover story of the current issue!

New issue online now!
‪MELTDOWN by @lynnmartel.bsky.social,
The Modern Miracle Problem by Tadzio Richards
Ground Truths by Bob Weber

albertaviews.ca/current-issue/

But not sure he was equally impressed!

Sure loved meeting this guy in Grasslands National Park. #plainsbison

Dedicating these beautiful wildflowers to everyone affected by and evacuated from wildfires in Canada right now, last summer and all those before and sadly, sure to come in future years. 💛💚🤍💜

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Inspiring Girls Expeditions Inspiring Girls* Expeditions

Girls On Ice leads tuition-free expeditions interweaving science, art and glacier travel for high school girls in US, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Central Asia and New Zealand. Sadly, the US govt funding has been cut. Learn more or donate www.inspiringgirls.org

UN Glacier Year Canada
#storiesofice

Thank you Nelson Adventure Speaker Series!! A huge thanks to Jayme Moye for her terrific organizing skills, and many thanks to the 85 people who came out to be entertained and to learn about Canada’s fascinating glaciers and icefields.
#RockyMountainBooks
#UNGlacierYearCanada
#StoriesOfIce

Best stress relief I know - xc skiing in a cedar forest. 🌲

And just one more image from the fascinating Glacier Ice Arch... such a cool feature in Jasper National Park ❄️❄️❄️
#UNGlacierYearCanada
#GuardiansOfTheIce
#glaciers
#storiesofice

I am so looking forward to sharing Stories - and spectacular photos! - from our Canadian Glaciers in Nelson,BC on Friday night!
#storiesofice
RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
UN Glacier Year Canada

Fabulous weekend at the Whyte Museum in Banff, celebrating the launch of the UN International Year of Glaciers Preservation Canadian initiative and MELTDOWN photo exhibit with 350 people who care about our glaciers and how quickly we are losing them.
#WriterInResidence
#unglacieryearcanada

Because it's Friday and we can never have enough #glacier beauty. ❄️❄️❄️ #StoriesOfIce #unglacieryearcanada #climatechange

Thank you!

I was super happy to finally visit this site in my home mountains, the #CanadianRockies. This spectacular archway was created by gushing water, sunlight and heat sculpting a tunnel through glacier ice last summer. It won't last long when temps warm up. #glaciers #unglacieryearcanada #storiesofice

Ice melt in January... funky formations, but not loving this warm winter...
#storiesofice #unglacieryearcanada

I captured this photo of Salmon Glacier in late August 2024. The Salmon is the largest road accessed glacier in North America.
Learn more about different types of glaciers and what the current melt rate means at: www.unglacieryear.ca/cryosphere

#glaciers
#UNGlacierYearCanada
#RockyMountainBooks

I'm excited to be presenting some Stories of Ice in Nelson, BC later this month. Looking forward to visiting Nelson and seeing some friends there too!
#glaciers
#UNGlacierYearCanada
#RockyMountainBooks

A Snow crane fly is an insect that survives through the winter - it is believed during the larvae stage it floods its tissues with glycerol, a natural antifreeze. Always cool to see one, this one just before New Year's Day. Yoho National Park, Canadian Rockies. #winter #snowmagic #Snowcranefly

Thanks so much!🙏

Because we can all use a little beauty in our day. ❄️🤍❄️

Canada IYGP The UN Glacier Year is Canada’s opportunity to show its leadership in all things snow and ice. In 2025, countries around the world are coming together to celebrate the splendour of glaciated landscape...

2025 is designated the United Nations International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, and I am honoured to be Writer in Residence for the Canadian UNIYGP. Stay tuned for stories, photos, lessons from Canada's glaciers and icefields. ❄️❄️❄️

#IYGPcanada
#internationalyearforglacierspreservation
#glaciers

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