A master sheds light on glacial retreat

July 2023

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Virginia Woolf has turned her love of the outdoors into a career in photography. Her latest project documents the loss of New Zealand’s glaciers due to climate change. There was a moment at Fox Glacier recently when climate change grief really hit Nelson photographer Virginia Woolf. Ten years earlier she had seen the glacier up […]
Naomi Arnold

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Naomi Arnold

Naomi Arnold is a Nelson tramper, journalist, and author. She particularly enjoys writing about nature, travel, science and adventure. Some of her favourite assignments have been reporting on dotterels from Rakiura, stoats from Preservation Inlet, ice science from Antarctica, and tramping Te Araroa while writing her 2025 trail memoir, Northbound.

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