European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 stars and stripes monday april 9 2007 witnesses to climate Changi by John Heilprin the associated press Bend Are bring bag Back firsthand accounts of vanishing glaciers melting ice routes crumbling Rock formations and flood prone lakes where glaciers once Rose the observations Are transforming a growing number of Alpine and ice climb ers some of whom have scientific train ing into eyewitnesses of global warming increasingly they Are deciding not to leave it to scientists to Tell the entire Story i personally have done a Bunch of ice climbs around the world that no longer exist said Yvon Chouinard a renowned climber and surfer and founder of Pat agon Ianc clothing and gear that champions the Environ t mean was aghast at the pointed to decent trips where the ice had All but disappeared on Fae famous Diamond Couloir of 16897foot mount Kenya and show was absent Atlow elevations on 4409foot Ben Nevis Britain highest Peak in the Highlands of Northwest Scotland he sees a role for climbers in debating Cli mate Changet even if their chronicles Are unscientific people 4oht care whether the ice goes or not the land of ice that isre Hub uttian stuff he said but climb per Ojus scientists talking Abonit it telling personal stories might a thelme to Somei people 5 about me Obj roof Drassic routes and Potentia new line ship melting from the cascades in the Pacific Northwest and the Alps in Europe to the Andes in South the Himalaya in Asia their anecdotes often reflect what Sci ence is finding but with stories and Pic Tares from places where most scientists Arent Able to reach climbers Wesee these places we go All Over the world Mark Bowen a Mountaineer Andre Haeng Genii climbs the Pointe Percee in France near the Swiss Border in september climber and physicist who wrote a Book on climate and mountains told the Amer Ica Alpine club at its annual meeting last week in Bend were in touch with the natural world like few people Are we can see the changes better than most people he said scientists and diplomats at an International conference in Belgium predicted on Friday that global warming would turn Many glaciers to lakes and cause Rock avalanches because of Frozen ground melting up High people living in Mountain areas expect More risk of floods by glacial lakes already Switzerland of osterhorn had to be closed to some climbing at times of Attef Dufeal to global swarming1 and its great Pletsch Glacier larg est has retreated info Estrom its Peak of Alps icy soil that gives i its Rock faces together is thawing causing inst Billy at Montana Glacier National Park glaciers Are vanishing like the storied snows ease Alpine news said see ing More melting and less Snow and ice in the mountains of Hima Laya Tibet and Bhutan the highest in clanged pea in on alaskan 5ast Juneau Ricefield he has seen How global warming has affected glaciers studied in the Long est continuous research program of any Ricefield system going to Bein one mat have mucked time worlds said Mabez South America the great ice Fields of Pat and Chile Are shrine ing Bolivia be finite Only ski area open by using artificial Chacaltana Glacier fades ice Glacier from which Edmund to sir say and tenant ascent of Everest k mountaineers now reach placed toe Glacier at Mand Peak said glaciers Are tra ordinarily Sensi Tive of climate japanese Tomat Sinaka Murai Edi Tor of the Japa Mountaineer Nalab slowly ids victims Byam Westfeldt the associated press new Dan technology developed by a Virginia Laboratory to help identify Yea sold remains of sept 11 2001 victims is working for All but the smallest slivers of Bones a scientist says but identifying a sept 11 victim still takes weeks of painstaking review and often depends on factors like the Quality of Dan samples orig ally provided by families from items like toothbrushes a City spokeswoman said saturday the last thing we want to do is submit an id to someone and have it not turn out to be an id said Ellen Borakove spokes woman for the City medical examiners of fice the City announced last week that re Mains of five victims including a City fire fighter had been identified but More than 1100 victims still do not have identifiable remains last fall chief medical examiner or Charles Hirsch told victims families that a new procedure for extracting Dan from re Mains would Likely Lead to new identifications that procedure which extracts Calcium from Bone Over a period of about a week has yielded purer Dan samples than Previ Ous tests of Bones badly damaged by extreme heat and time said Mike Cariola vice president for forensic operations at Lorton abased Bode technology group pilots language ends flight Romulus Mich a Northwest air lines flight was cancelled because the Pilot was Yelling obscenities during a cell phone conversation while people were boarding and cursed one passenger a Federal official said saturday the 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