Carving Landscapes

Screened at FCFF 2019

Film Synopsis

Atypical for her time, Mary Vaux defies all gender roles, mountain weather, and traditions to spark the first glaciology study in North America. Her perseverance brings her back to the same glacier for five decades.

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