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CRUMBLED. THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, the stern granite profile, which has for generations been the state's most recognizable landmark, carved naturally by a glacier 30,000 years ago into New Hampshire's Cannon Mountain; as a result of erosion, after decades of efforts to preserve it; in Franconia Notch State Park. The 40-ft. face has appeared on license plates, postage stamps and the state quarter. New Hampshire officials are debating whether to restore the monument...
...About an hour's bumpy drive from Xidan or a convenient bus ride from Deqin, this sleepy village sits in the shadow of the brooding but magnificent Kawa Karpo Peak, whose mammoth glacier?at 11.7 kilometers long and covering an area of 13 square kilometers?feeds a gurgling tributary of the Mekong...
...Luckily, the local government has constructed a safer, more reverent?and environmentally sound?way of viewing the glacier. Simply head out from Mingyong's main square where a comfortably graded trail rises alongside the tumbling icefall and cuts through a hardwood forest before emerging onto wooden viewing ramparts. You will be close enough to feel the cool breeze off the ice, but far enough away to keep the glacier pristine...
...beautiful temples, spaced about half an hour apart, break up the hike and offer simple lodging as well as prayer flag-fringed vistas of the glacier's jagged surface. So far the glacier attracts a mere 6,000 visitors a year, and it's perfectly possible to walk this lovely trail without coming across another human being...
Carrying a pickax and shovel, Boston University geologist David Marchant trudges up a snow-dusted side canyon to Beacon Valley. The ground beneath his feet is as intricately patterned as a quilt, and under its rubble-strewn surface lurks a glacier of venerable age. Marchant believes this glacier has been frozen in place for millions of years--and if he's right, the ice in the glacier holds invaluable clues to an earlier epoch of global warming, one that offers a provocative parallel to the warming expected later in this century...