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Ice Pioneer Eyes Farthest Glaciers

JAN 08, 2008
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Baltimore Examiner : For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they’re gone.
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