A team of four scientists and mountaineers spent more than a week camping on the remote and notoriously foul-weathered Thwaites Glacier this winter. They faced rough, hurricane-force winds as they researched the warm ocean water melting the underside of the glacier, which could trigger a massive worldwide rise in sea level. The World’s Carolyn Beeler worked with scientist Sridhar Anandakrishnan to bring back the sounds of a place that humans have never been before.
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