![]() ![]() She spoke with historians, guides, and scientists in search of answers. She visited a cryonics institute, an ice core lab, a wunderkammer, Wittgensteins cabin, and other museums and libraries. Petersons effort to make sense of these losses led to travels across Scandinavia, Italy, England and back to the United States. ![]() Finally, Peterson took a harrowing forty-foot fall while ice climbing. The glacier was melting at breakneck pace, and people she knew vanished: her professor went missing while summiting a volcano in Japan, and a friend wandered off a mountain trail in Norway. A few months after Peterson moved to a tiny village on the edge of Europes largest glacier, things began to disappear. ![]() For Beth Peterson, the discourse around these quickly-changing landscapes became personal. About the Book The future of the worlds ice is at a critical juncture, marked by international debate about climate change and almost daily reports about glaciers and ice shelves breaking, oceans rising, and temperatures spiking across the globe. ![]()
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