Season 4, Episode 3: Glaciers in Retreat; What We Lose When the Ice Melts with Jeff Crompton

On this episode of the Whistler Podcast, Mayor Jack Crompton sits down with glaciologist Dr. Jeff Crompton, who also happens to be Jack’s cousin, to explore the past, present, and rapidly changing future of our mountain glaciers. Jeff shares insights from his family's deep history in Canadian mountaineering and surveying and his own research on glacial surges and geohazards. The conversation covers everything from catastrophic landslides to the impacts of the thinning of local glaciers like Overlord and Horstman. Glaciers are more than frozen landmarks; they are vital indicators of climate change and environmental shifts. This episode is a sobering, informative, and occasionally hopeful look at what these changes mean for Whistler and why acting now is essential.

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Season 4, Episode 3: Glaciers in Retreat; What We Lose When the Ice Melts with Jeff Crompton is an episode from The Whistler Podcast by Resort Municipality of Whistler.

This episode is 30:56 long.

This episode was published on Jun 5, 2025.

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