'out there at this time in the morning, are you mad?!'

Fab week in Innsbruck featuring some light International Mountain Conferencing and a bit more ice creaming and exploring.

My tallest sunflower got too big for its very tiny boots. 6ft 4 me for scale.

A very pretty satellite image taken over the South Patagonian Icefield in 1973. Apparently I am not allowed to set this as my desktop background for university IT reasons, so here you go Bluesky.

I have never felt such guilt whilst snacking.

Elevation change maps to compare with Mauri's snowcover obs. Thinning throughout the elevation range of the ice cap now, although it has been an unhappy ice cap for a while. Moraines flanking the recently formed ice marginal lakes certainly not stable on the eastern side of the ice cap either. ❄️🧪

Recharging before another relentless week of doing exactly this.

As it is strictly forbidden to make a presentation about glaciers without including any nice pictures of glaciers, here's a nice picture of Upsala Glacier from April 1973 which will be included in the presentation I'm making about glaciers. It's retreated 11.5 km since then.

I did not have skiing 10 miles from Edinburgh city centre on my bingo card for the year! A grand day out with @lawrenceeagle.bsky.social in the Pentland Hills.