The loss of the world's frozen places

ABSTRACT

By Alexandra Witze In the summer of 1948, a small group of men in Juneau, Alaska, packed boots, axes, ropes and camping gear, and set off into the ice and snow that sprawls just north of the city. Big polar glaciers, including Thwaites Glacier, are central to how rapidly the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting into the ocean, raising sea levels. Fox moves into this space from his background as a ski writer (a previous book was about skiing and climate change).