Lynn’s Speaking

Lynn Martel is a dynamic, naturally gifted storyteller with 15 years public speaking experience. She’s been a featured speaker at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, Wings Over the Rockies, the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, and many other organizations and events.

An authority on how outdoor adventure has shaped Canada’s unique mountain culture, Lynn shares heart-stopping, hilarious and inspiring tales of her own and others’ adventures amidst Canada’s wild alpine landscapes.

Robert and his buddy were skiing up the Athabasca Glacier when Robert fell 100 feet into a deep, dark crevasse. What happens next?

Set to a backdrop of stunning photography, Lynn’s talks interweave the cultural, scientific and environmental significance of the region’s enigmatic, precious and rapidly melting glaciers and icefields, and offers steps we can all take to be stewards of the mountain environment.

Presentation topics include:

  • 2025 the International Year of Glacier Preservation

  • Peyto Glacier - North America’s longest continuously studied glacier

  • Adventure on Ice - Skiing for weeks, months across Canada’s icefields

  • Commerce from Ice - Guiding, tourism, distilleries and even mining operations earn their livings on and from our glaciers

  • Creativity on Ice - Painters, photographers, filmmakers and writers have long been inspired by Canada’s glaciers - now more than ever.

Testimonials

John Andresen, Alpine Club of Canada VP Access & Environment

“Lynn’s animated speaking style draws you in and conveys a welcome sense that she’s happy to be there and in love with her material. Her photos are stunning! I came away with a better sense of our high places, their beauty, and the pressures our great heritage is under.”

-Sue Hayduk, Arts and Culture Coordinator, Town of Canmore

“Exceptional and Engaging!”

-Lesley Young, ACC Calgary Section Social Committee Chair

“One might think that a presentation on glaciers could be boring but not when Lynn presents!”

-Joanne Liu, landscape and glacier photographer

“It was refreshing to have fun learning about climate change!”

-Katie Mitzel, Backcountry Chef and Bacchus Cafe owner

“Lynn reflects poetically on her many adventures and observations in Canada’s remote mountains with a sense of awe, inspiration and trepidation for the reader. I found her wonderfully engaging, terrifically up to date on the state of our glaciers and full of a beautiful optimism that I didn’t know I was desperate for until I was immersed in her presentation.”