Our Ambassadors
Ambassador:
Caroline Côté
Caroline Côté is a Canadian athlete, adventurer, and documentary filmmaker. Through her expeditions, she documents climate change and shares inspiring stories regarding the impact of climate on indigenous communities, among others. Her passion and specialty is to film nature, preferably in remote places or under extreme conditions, and she is always on the lookout for new projects.
Caroline is also an ambassador for the Athlete Alliance of Protect Our Winters Canada.
Photo courtesy of Caroline Côté
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Meet Caroline Côté, the fastest woman to reach the South Pole by Canadian Geographic.
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Year of the Glaciers' open letter
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The Adventure Itinerary: A documentary about Katherine, a woman who dedicated her life to conserving the environment.
Passages: A trailer about the story of five women attempting to cross Kuururjuaq Park in Quebec's Far North.
Pull of the North: 2000 mile canoe journey from the source of the Yukon River at Lake Bennett, Canada to its mouth at Emmonak at the Bering Sea, Alaska.
Njord: Recent expedition in Svalbard. Password: Resilience
Indigenous Ambassador:
Tim Patterson
Tim Patterson is an Indigenous Knowledge and Relations Advisor, the advisor to the Alpine Club of Canada and one of the 2025 IYGP Ambassadors. Born in Merritt, British Columbia, Patterson is from the Lower Nicola Indian Band and has resided in Alberta for the last two decades. With a master’s degree in environmental education, Patterson is focused on sharing Indigenous knowledge that is rooted in and around the mountains. Through Zic’min Guiding, an Indigenous adventure tourism company, Patterson is able to connect with others.
“I want to bring my Indigenous knowledge, my western knowledge and guiding together, so I use hiking and the outdoors as a way of breaking barriers and introducing people to knowledge construction.”
Youth Ambassador:
Teighan Wallace
Teighan Wallace was born in Ontario and grew up learning about glaciers through her parents. A visit to the Rocky Mountains in 2019 sparked an interest in the mountains and their interaction with the world. Last summer, Teighan worked in Banff National Park, hiking many trails surrounded by glaciers and mountain scenery. Now a second-year student at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island, she is studying physical geography and Earth and ocean science, with plans to focus on glaciers and their impact on the world in her upcoming years of study.
The International Year for Glaciers’ Preservation offers a way for Teighan to get involved and raise awareness among the younger generation.