Thin ice : unlocking the secrets of climate in the world's highest mountains / Mark Bowen.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt,
2005.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- I: The Sajama expedition
- The mountain God
- An island in the sky
- II: Early days
- Where next?
- Beginnings
- A decade on Quelccaya
- III: The warming sets in
- First signs
- The great experiment
- Temperature follows suit
- China opens up
- IV: The essence of life
- A city by a lake
- The seesaw
- V: More pieces for the puzzle
- Casting about
- From Tibet...
- ...to Peru
- Altering the course of thinking
- Pushing back the bar
- Solving the mercer problem
- Endurance and tragedy on Dasuopu
- VI: Kilimanjaro
- Scratching the surface
- Drilling deeper
- The story in the snows.