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Ed Kohler
kqedscience: The same view of Mount Everest, 88 years apart, affords a striking contrast - and a much diminished glacier. David Breashears says: “Eighty-six years after Mallory took that photograph, I sat in the exact spot where he had snapped his iconic picture. Pulling out his photo, I was stunned by the changes that had swept over this region.... - http://x.thedeets.com/post...
kqedscience:
  
The same view of Mount Everest, 88 years apart, affords a striking contrast - and a much diminished glacier.
 
David Breashears says: “Eighty-six years after Mallory took that photograph, I sat in the exact spot where he had snapped his iconic picture. Pulling out his photo, I was stunned by the changes that had swept over this region. The wide river of ice had retreated more than half a mile, leaving a field of separated ice pinnacles melting into the rocky ground. In the distance, the ice streams on Everest’s flank also had shrunk, exposing more of the mountain’s dark face.”
  
This is a good reason to take your kids to see glaciers. They’ll be able to tell their kids about it some day.