Teton Gravity Research (TGR) Drops Part One of 'Playgrounds: Kluane' - VIDEO

Teton Gravity Research (TGR), brings to life a multi-part, eye-opening digital series that shows the reality of climate change, highlighting the communities impacted, and the scientists on the front lines in a lesser known region of the Yukon Territory, Canada. The series launched on Saturday, April 22, 2023 in celebration of Earth Day.


 
In 2022, a TGR film crew and athletes set off on an exploratory mission to conduct research on remote glaciers deep in the heart of Kluane National Park and Reserve, in the Canadian Yukon Territory. Two University of Ottawa glaciologists, Dr. Luke Copeland, a professor and the University Research Chair in Glaciology in the Department of Geography, and Dr. Dora Medrzycka, joined the crew on the expedition. Turns out that findings from their mission could help contribute an additional 30 years of glaciology data to the register.
 
This three-part series focuses on the science, history, people, and place of this remote and expansive part of Southwest Yukon. The stunningly striking landscape of the Kluane is part of the traditional territory of the Southern Tutchone people, represented in the Kluane region by the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations and the Kluane First Nation (source: ParksCanada.ca). This is a region that has haunted and enticed mountain explorers for centuries, and is home to Mount Logan (5,959m, 19,545') the highest mountain in Canada and the second highest peak on the continent, Mount St. Elias (5,488m, 18,005') and Mount Lucania (5,231m, 17,162') among others.