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Laura Veirs: Carbon Glacier

Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2004

LESS THAN ten years ago, Laura Veirs was struck on being a geologist. Then, exploring a remote desert corner of northwest China with a bunch of fellow students, she was left alone to tend camp among yaks and inquisitive native herders.

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