Famed Mountaineer David Breashears Discusses Melting Himalayan Glaciers
Articles — By forcechange on January 22, 2009 12:01 pm
SolveClimate produced this video of famed mountaineer David Breashears discussing the dramatic melting of the Himalayan glaciers. SolveClimate notes:
[Breashears] has been combing the musty stacks of libraries and archives for old photographs of the Himalaya, and then going back to the exact locations to make modern pictures. He’s come back with the evidence of the loss of glaciers all over the world, documenting the present and accelerating reality of global warming for all to see.
Last week, he was at the Asia Society in New York for a conference called Meltdown: The Impact of Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau where he filled a wall with two panoramic images of Mount Everest and its surrounding glaciers. One was taken in 1921; the other, Breashears took in 2008.
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