Some of you may have seen this video extracted from Chasing Ice; the largest glacial carving event ever captured on film. And some of you may also have seen these recent articles: Greenland is melting: we need to worry about what’s happening on the largest island in the world The Conversation, 18 November 2020 An iceberg the size of ...

Our very own Dr Stephen Carthew, recently appraised me of an article by Elsner and Pruitt (1959) that discussed some structural and thermal characteristics of snow shelters. The article is of particular interest, because Sir Hubert is mentioned, contributing to the discussion via Koppes (1948), on the viability of constructing snow houses from unconsolidated snow ...