Her search for a noted glacier museum in Norway led to news that the renowned building had set on fire in the middle of the night before and burned to the ground. She spoke with historians, guides, and scientists in search of answers. She visited a cryonics institute, an ice core lab, a wunderkammer, Wittgenstein's cabin, and other museums and libraries. Peterson's effort to make sense of these losses led to travels across Scandinavia, Italy, England and back to the United States. Finally, Peterson took a harrowing forty-foot fall while ice climbing. The glacier was melting at breakneck pace, and people she knew vanished: her professor went missing while summiting a volcano in Japan, and a friend wandered off a mountain trail in Norway. A few months after Peterson moved to a tiny village on the edge of Europe's largest glacier, things began to disappear. It is science wrought with mystery, and for Beth Peterson it became personal. These changing landscapes and the public discourse surrounding them are changing fast. The future of the world's ice is at a critical juncture marked by international debate about climate change and almost daily reports about glaciers and ice shelves breaking, oceans rising, and temperatures spiking across the globe.
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