Popova’s words were written to accompany the publication of artist Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller’s Thank You, Everything, which includes the above
🔹THANK YOU MOUNTAINS
🔹THANK YOU RIVER

"...But it is good, every once in a while, to let ourselves be stupefied by gratitude, to cast upon ourselves a spell against indifference by moving through the world with an inner bow at every littlest thing that prevailed over the odds of otherwise in order to exist.”

“And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for every raindrop and every eyelash to get through the daily tasks punctuating the unbidden wonder of our lives..."

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Tell us about what mountain #snow & #glaciers mean to you, why they are so magical & significant, what climate change is doing to Earth’s frozen zones; & why it’s so important to defend them – and share your experiences and tag us here using #SaveOurSnow

SaveOurSnow exists to raise awareness of the crisis in the mountains – by collecting and platforming the images, stories and voices of publics connected to snow and ice, particularly the perspectives of mountain communities, mountain climbers, athletes, and explorers and mountain scientists.

‘The changes that have taken place in the snow and glaciers here, just in the space of that decade, are so immediately obvious, and so dramatic,’ Kilian said. ‘It’s happening so, so fast.’”

“Yet the trip was bittersweet. A climate advocate who consciously limits how often he flies in order to try to drive down his personal carbon footprint, it had been 10 years since Jornet had first seen the mountain.

.... He delighted in seeing the girls playing with people and in places he felt so connected to,” read a piece in Alpine Journal on Jornet’s support for #SaveOurSnow published later that year.

“Jornet, the son of a mountain guide who reached the summit of his first 3,000m peak at the tender age of three, was hoping to plant the seed for his daughters to develop a love for the people and nature of the Himalaya to equal his own. .....

It was not Jornet’s first visit to Chomolungma but it was the first time he and his partner Swedish athlete Emilie Forsberg were accompanied by their two youngest children.

Jornet using his platform to raise awareness of the pace of changes now seen in mountain cryosphere when he went to the Chomolungma region around the anniversary of the first ascent of the mountain in 2023.

Legendary Catalan mountain athlete and tailrunner Kilian Jornet was one of the first backers of #SaveOurSnow campaign.

Please join us: everyone is welcome and now, more than ever, everyone is needed. Below are some ways you can support the campaign online.

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2. The first-ever HKH Women On Ice cohort, aspiring female glaciologists from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region who will have just got back from a cryosphere monitoring expedition, to the Ponkar Glacier in Manang, Nepal.

Register here: forms.gle/5XcWuhkyHbsC...

Presenting will be:

1. ICIMOD glaciologist & #SaveOurSnow campaign founder Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa. Chogyal has just returned from an expedition to Thame, the village that was devastated earlier this year when a glacial lake flooded in the Khumbu area where he was born.