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Lynn Martel
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Lynn Martel is an award winning Author, Photographer and Public Speaker who explores and documents Canada's wild, beautiful mountains and (melting) glaciers. Writer in Residence with UN Year of Glaciers Preservation Canada. https://www.lynnmartel.ca
August 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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
July 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Columbine in the alpine.
Jasper National Park.
July 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Any day walking on a glacier is a very good day💙❄💙 @unglacieryearcanada @protectourwinterscanada @rm_books @guardiansoftheice #glaciers #storiesofice #glacierblue
July 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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
July 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Sure loved meeting this guy in Grasslands National Park. #plainsbison
June 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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. 💛💚🤍💜
June 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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
February 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Best stress relief I know - xc skiing in a cedar forest. 🌲
February 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
And just one more image from the fascinating Glacier Ice Arch... such a cool feature in Jasper National Park ❄️❄️❄️
#UNGlacierYearCanada
#GuardiansOfTheIce
#glaciers
#storiesofice
January 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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
January 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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
January 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Because it's Friday and we can never have enough #glacier beauty. ❄️❄️❄️ #StoriesOfIce #unglacieryearcanada #climatechange
January 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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
January 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Ice melt in January... funky formations, but not loving this warm winter...
#storiesofice #unglacieryearcanada
January 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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
January 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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
January 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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
January 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Because we can all use a little beauty in our day. ❄️🤍❄️
January 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
While our Canadian Rockies backcountry has been a little thin on snow so far this season, on the day I captured this image the fog was making everything extra beautiful. ❄️❄️❄️
#winterwonderland
#snowbeauty
#protectourwinters
January 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In my happy place 🏔️❄️⛷️
January 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Because it's Friday, and looking forward to more adventures in a snowy wonderland, here's an image from a couple of weekends ago...❄️❄️❄️
January 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
January 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
No better way to begin the year than gliding through a snowy wonderland! Welcome 2025❄️❄️❄️ #winter #snow #canadianlandscapes #snowbeauty
January 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Feeling grateful for another year of wonderful adventures in blissfully snowy, wintery surroundings❄️🤍❄️
#storiesofice #winter #snow #IYGPcanada #internationalyearforglacierspreservation
December 31, 2024 at 9:33 PM