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Alpinist Conrad Anker Discusses His New Glacier Monitoring Project

I am in Missoula, Montana, this week and yesterday I had a chance to talk with alpinist Conrad Anker. He joined me and other folks attending the 2010 SEJ conference on trip to Glacier National Park. Anker is most famous for his challenging ascents of the worlds highest mountains, including peaks in the high Himalaya, Patagonia, and Antarctica. He is also the climber that found the body of George Mallory in 1999 on Mount Everest (Read Anker’s account in The Lost Explorer). At 47, the Bozeman, Montana, resident now also includes environmentalist and citizen scientist among his chief occupations. Global warming is one of his greatest concerns, he said.

The North Face

Standing on the shores of the McDonald River, Anker told journalists about a new joint project with Extreme Ice Survey to monitor ongoing changes to the glaciers of the Himalaya. A few months ago, Anker led a five-person team of climbers and photographers to install cameras in the Himalayas. It was a project directed by photographer James Balog of Boulder, Colo.-based Extreme Ice Survey. The five cameras are affixed to the sides of mountains. They take photos every 30 minutes and capture time-lapse images of the changing glacial landscape. Two of the cameras monitor the Everest Base Camp and the Khumbu ice fall, and two cameras are equipped with telephoto lenses and focus only on parts of the Khumbu ice. Another camera monitors Nare Glacier, on the south side of nearby Ama Dablam. EIS has cameras all over the world that monitor glaciers in Alaska, the Alps, Greenland, and Iceland.

At Thursday’s reception, Anker gave a talk about images from the EIS project. He showed a time-lapsed series of photos taken from the newly installed Himalayan cameras. Then he showed a historical image from the same location taken 50 years ago, which shows how ice has vanished from the south side of the Khumbu massif and how the glacier is now thin and sparse.

Anker is a member of The North Face climbing team.

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Hello there. I am Lisa Palmer and welcome to my site. I’m a journalist and writer, a contributor to magazines and online media sites, a freelance editor, a backpacker, a NOLSie, a cyclist, a wife and mother, and a student of the piano hooked on the classic techniques of nineteenth century pianist Charles-Louis Hanon. I’ve written a lot of news and feature articles on science, green energy, climate change, green building and design, and the environment; and I’ve posted some stories here. There’s also information about my background and my professional affiliations.

Since becoming a freelance writer in 2000, I have written on everything from biotechnology and dramatic medical narratives to green tech and sustainable agri-business for leading magazines and newspapers.  Recent projects include freelance stints as a writer and editor for the National Academy of Sciences and as a producer of a reporting guide for journalists covering the green jobs beat for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. I am a graduate of Boston University and earned my master’s degree at Simmons College in Boston. Prior to my career as a writer, I was a teacher and a research analyst.

My greatest strength as a writer lies in my ability to jump among diverse communities. Some days I’ll write about a prenatal blood test or cover stories in high crime and poverty neighborhoods. Other days I’ll interview a NASA scientist, talk with the superintendent of an urban school about education reform, sit down with a CEO of a Fortune 500 company to discuss climate change, or have a Tony award winner show me his latest set design. That said, I am deft at covering a variety of topics in both ends of the socio-economic spectrum without pandering to subjects or readers.

I am also a skilled and enthusiastic moderator and speaker. I have appeared before university audiences and at numerous conferences, including the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference. To hire me as a speaker, click here.

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