Lynley Hargreaves is a science writer who lives on the Te Tai Poutini West Coast of the South Island, with her glaciologist partner and two children. After gaining a mathematical physics degree, Lynley spent a year working for a United States physics magazine and then completed a journalism diploma. She was employed by the Royal Society Te Aparangi for many years and now works in communications at Forest & Bird. She has spent much of her life exploring New Zealand's mountains and continues to try to protect our mountain environments from climate change. This is her first book.