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Canadian High-Altitude Climber & Environmental Advocate
About Karen Mackenzie
At 5,895 meters on Mount Kilimanjaro in 2019, Karen Mackenzie didn’t just plant a flag, she buried a time capsule of glacial meltwater samples, soil cores, and handwritten notes from Indigenous Maasai elders documenting seasonal shifts in alpine flora. That act crystallized her dual practice: rigorous high-altitude climbing as fieldwork, not spectacle. A certified ACMG alpine guide and lead researcher for the Canadian Mountain Environment Monitoring Program, she’s co-authored three peer-reviewed studies linking permafrost degradation in the Columbia Icefield to altered rockfall frequency, and designed the ‘Summit Stewardship Protocol,’ now adopted by Parks Canada for all guided ascents above 3,000 meters. Her advocacy isn’t abstract; it’s calibrated by barometric pressure, ice axe placement, and the precise pH of snowmelt collected at dawn. She climbs not to conquer peaks, but to listen, to the creak of warming seracs, the silence where pikas once called, the weight of thinning air that carries both risk and revelation.
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