From mountain tops and frozen seas to city parks and desert hills, writer and Arctic traveller Nancy Campbell digs deep into the meanings of fifty words for snow. Under her gaze, each of these linguistic snow crystals offers a whole world of myth and story. (There’s also a word from Latvia, Blizzard of Skylarks, that Nancy was inspired to use after my Tweet.)

“The climate is a prism through which to view the human world – just as language can be.”

Photos by Anna Iltnere / Sea Library