The Oak Podcast

Glaciologist Marie Schroeder joins Dave and Tom to talk about this summer's record glacier melt, the job of a glaciologist, and what a changing Alps means for skiers and mountaineers this winter. Plus a quick conditions report and this week's news from Chamonix.

🔗 Marie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marie.schrooeder/
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Marie has left us with some interesting resources, here they are:

•⁠ ⁠Projection for different glaciers in the Alps and around the world and when we will have to say goodbye to them: https://goodbye-glaciers.info/

•⁠ ⁠⁠Interactive dashboard to explore the latest science about climate change: https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/

•⁠ ⁠Chatbot to ask all your climate related questions, based on scientific knowledge: ⁠https://www.chatclimate.ai/

•⁠ ⁠⁠Comparison pictures of many glaciers in the Alps: https://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/big_melt/index-en.html

Is mountaineering worth the risk? Ebba Forsgren shares a traumatic mountaineering story and discusses how she was able to mentally process such an event.

Episode 1 of the Oak Podcast, hosted by Dave Searle and Tom Baxter, joined by Ebba Forsgren.

In this pilot episode, co-host Tom Baxter, freeride skier and social media manager at Oak, shares the story of the time he skied down the Aiguille du Midi north face with a stranger he met online. Also in this episode: paragliding incidents and risks in the mountains.