How one artist is raising awareness about the world’s most imperiled natural places

Swiss artist Corinne Weidmann grew up in a small village in the Alps where life has always hinged on the gifts the mountains bestow. “When I was young, if you asked a Swiss, ‘What do you do for fun?’ they would never say skiing or snowboarding because that was always understood,” said the 33-year-old artist.

Wiedmann has watched with alarm as her beloved Alps—which are exhibiting more pronounced effects of climate change than mountain ranges in other parts of the world—grapple with melting glaciers and shrinking winters. It is what compelled her to create “Emergency Exhibit.”

Two years after she first unveiled the exhibit, Weidmann’s work is more relevant than ever. Read more from Jackson Hole Snowboarder’s 2016 story on Weidmann here.

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