The people who notice first
Guides and local residents often observe changes in routes, water and slope conditions before those changes become international news.
Places, People & Culture
Guides, researchers, Indigenous knowledge holders, visitors and downstream communities give every glacier a human geography.
Guides and local residents often observe changes in routes, water and slope conditions before those changes become international news.
Names, stories and customary knowledge record relationships with ice that cannot be represented by a satellite graph alone.
Repeat photography makes long-term change visible to anyone. We preserve dates, locations and original context.
Communities affected by glacier change are sources of knowledge and decision-makers—not background scenery for a climate story.