Stories of Ice

From snow spiders to rock flour, from the Illecillewaet to the Chaba, Lynn Martel has crafted an impressive volume, taking the reader on a personal journey onto and into the fascinating world of ice." —Bernadette McDonald, author of Art of Freedom, Alpine Warriors, Freedom Climbers and Keeper of the Mountains

Lynn Martel loves glaciers and you should too! Stories of Ice is an engaging and meticulously researched look at the adventure, science and inspiration of glaciers. As the last vestiges of an undisturbed landscape that covered our entire continent, glaciers are a barometer of our relationship with the Earth, and Martel asks, What are glaciers telling us? Their disappearance is the visible face of climate change and Martel concludes with a stirring and positive call to action."—John Baldwin, co-author of Soul of Wilderness (with Linda Bily)

Lynn Martel has produced an exhaustively researched, lovingly crafted and beautifully written body of work about our relationships with living ice, drawing from the adventures and experiences of explorers, climbers, scientists and others. —Kevin Van Tighem, author of Heart Waters, Our Place, The Homeward Wolf and Bears: Without Fear

This is a definitive work about living ice and the human lives it touches. Its timing is important; by the end of this century the glaciers she describes may well be gone. But such is the passion and power of this work that it might even help save those glaciers by mobilizing action to defend them from the climate changes that put their future—and ours—in doubt." —Kevin Van Tighem, author of Heart Waters, Our Place, The Homeward Wolf and Bears: Without Fear

While I admire the concept of stories shaped around the ephemeral aspect of ice, I'm particularly taken by Lynn's insights into the affinity shared for Jumbo Glacier in the central Purcells by the Indigenous Ktunaxa Nation and the Alpine Club of Canada's first official photographer, Byron Harmon. A century ago Harmon was inspired to capture the spiritually uplifting vista of Jumbo Glacier. And for the Ktunaxa, its sacred glacial meltwater has nourished their nature-based belief system since the beginning of time." —Pat Morrow, author of Looking for Tao Canyon, Footsteps in the Clouds and Beyond Everest

Lynn Martel's Stories of Ice is a fascinating and eclectic mix of tales about multiple aspects of glaciers: artistic, scientific, economic, recreational, touristic, historical and even spiritual. Here in Canada we are richly endowed with glacial ice, but unfortunately it is disappearing quickly. This personal and informative book is a must read for anyone interested in the effects of climate change." —Chic Scott, author of Pushing the Limits, Powder Pioneers, Deep Powder and Steep Rock and numerous others