Prompted by an illness that took her to the brink of death and back, Jemma Wadham recalls 25 years of expeditions around the globe. Speaking to the professor about her new book, Ice Rivers, Shivani Dave uncovers the importance of glaciers – and what they should mean to us
- Read the Guardian’s recent series Our disappearing glaciers.
- Buy Jemma’s book, Ice Rivers, here.
- Jemma Wadham is a professor in glaciology at the University of Bristol and UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and director of the Cabot Institute.
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