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I'm excited to announce that I'll be participating in the American Climber Science Program's 2019 Lhotse/Everest expedition in Nepal this March-June. We will be conducting research in Sagamartha and Makalu Barun National Parks, where we will attempt to summit Lhotse, Everest's slightly shorter 27,940 foot next door neighbor. A separate team will attempt Everest.
Check here for updates, descriptions of our team and our research: https://www.climberscience.org/blog https://www.climberscience.org/nepal I expect it to be the hardest thing I've ever done, but I'm looking forward to it. I hope it is a fruitful research project.
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Chris Dunn, PhD
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*When I use the term "exploration", I mean it in a personal sense (discovery for myself, or at a unique moment in time [everywhere after all--even crowded cities--endlessly await rediscovery--by new eyes and in new moments]), not in an absolute sense. With few exceptions (notably Antarctica), almost everywhere on earth has had other people around for a long time (though to varying degrees - high mountain tops or places like the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet for instance were far less visited and populated, and undoubtedly at least some pockets of the earth were never visited or populated). It is an enlightening experience though when on an isolated ridge in what feels like the middle of nowhere to wonder if anyone has set foot there but never knowing for sure. What is significant is that the landscape itself is left in such a condition that it isn't evident. Some places ought to be kept that way.
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