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Chipping Away at the Footprints of the Past

On the day after my reconnaissance on the glacier with Mike Roberts, David Putnam and I set forth to begin reconstructing the history of Drukso Gangri ('Dragon Tooth Glacier') from the footprints it has left behind on the landscape. We awoke early to a spectacularly clear morning. The sun first illuminated the high peaks surrounding our campsite, and a dense layer of morning frost crunched underfoot.
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Aaron Putnam, a postdoctoral research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, is leading a field expedition to the mountain kingdom of Bhutan to examine links among past climate, glaciers and water resources in the Himalaya.
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