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Ice-core mission in the Swiss Alps abandoned due to surprisingly hard glacier

01 Oct 2020 James Dacey
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Ice memory Corbassier glacier, Grand Combin mountain massif (Courtesy: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice/Ice Memory Project)
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James Dacey is a multimedia journalist based in Madrid
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