“For the stone from the top for geologists…” answered mountaineer George Mallory once when asked why he’d climb Mount Everest (he and his friend Sandy Irvine perished there on June 6, 1924).
Geologists nowadays study how climate change weakens the mountains based on observations made by such pioneering mountaineers. Continue reading...
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