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...describe these organisms as hardy would be an understatement. The Dry Valleys are so cold (the mean annual temperature hovers around -5ºF) that glacier-fed streams run no more than six weeks a year, and so arid that what little snow falls turns to vapor almost overnight. Scientists recently reported, however, that sequestered in the 60 ft. of ice that covers one of the largest Dry Valleys lakes, Lake Vida, are dormant but still viable bacteria that have been sealed off from the outside world for some 3,000 years...
...days earlier this month residents in the tiny Italian Alpine village of Macugnaga (pop. 700) were under threat. A giant lake had formed atop a glacier on Monte Rosa, and authorities worried that the water would burst its banks - or worse, that the glacier itself would become dislodged, sending a river of ice, mud, rock and debris crashing down the mountainside and into Macugnaga situated below. Disaster was averted thanks to cooler temperatures and frantic efforts to pump water out of the lake. But for Andreas Kääb, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich, the Macugnaga incident...
...site for outdoor adventures is gorp.com which features magazine-style articles on topics like "10 Best Adventure Lodges" and "Death Valley's Vital Signs," along with thorough listings for national, state and local parks. I especially like Gorp's Zagat-style ratings of parks and trails (best national park: Glacier in Montana) as well as helpful tips on when to avoid the crowds and the mosquitoes. When the time comes to book a campsite at a state or local park, I head to reserveamerica.com It shows the exact layout of thousands of campgrounds, so that you can see how close...
Popular history is like a polar ice shelf. It encases a certain figure, event or phenomenon in its deep freeze for ages; then, inexplicably, the surface cracks, and the glacier heaves it up: the presidency of John Adams! The invention of longitude! The history...
Last October Régine Cavagnoud, who won the super-G World Cup in 2001 and was third overall in the World Cup standings, died in a freak training accident on the Pitztal glacier, near Innsbruck. During a joint French and German team-practice session, the 31-year-old Cavagnoud was speeding down the ice at around 65 km/h when she crashed into German coach Markus Anwander. Both sustained head injuries, and Cavagnoud went into cardiac arrest. Two days later she died. Germany's World combined champion Martina Ertl spoke for many of her fellow competitors when she said, "This...