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It is midsummer in Pakistan’s northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan, on the treacherous and unforgiving Baltoro Glacier, the second longest in the Karakoram Range and one of the largest outside the polar regions. We are trekking our way to the amphithe
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), globally glaciers lost more than 6,000 gigatons of ice over the period 1993– 2019. This is the equivalent water volume of 10 lakes the size of the Dead Sea, the deepest hypersaline la

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