Archive for April, 2010

The prestigious American magazine “American Scientist” published in the march-april 2010 - nr. 98 issue in the column “Sightings”, dedicated to the innovative use of photography in different scientific fields, an interview to Prof. Kenneth Hewitt, member of our scientific committee an one of the world’s experts in Karakorum glaciers. Prof. Hewitt describes in the interview the characteristics of these glaciers and the changes occurred to them during the past one hundred years. The interview comes with a comparison of historical and modern images.

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The prestigious French mountain magazine “Montagnes” published, in the April 2010 nr. 353 issue, an 8 pages article written by Prof. Kenneth Hewitt of our scientific committee, titled “On the trails of the Duke of Abruzzi – Karakorum’s glaciers one hundred years later”. In the article Hewitt describes the peculiarities of Karakorum’s glaciers and their changes occurred in the last one hundred years, which separate the former Duke of Abruzzi expedition from our expedition of 2009. Ample space is given in the article to the comparative photographs, that follow one after the other together with detailed captions.

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