70 years of global warming?

The image of the Pindari glacier in the Himalayas left was taken on October 7, 1936, by then Deputy Conservator of Forests F W Champion, considered the legendary pioneer of wildlife photography in India. This year, on the 70th anniversary of that event, at the exact spot, his grandson James Champion photographed the same glacier.

James was in India to retrace his grandfather8217;s steps while he worked in the Imperial Forest Service: the rest houses he lived in, the jungles he took his camera across and the Himalayan treks. What struck James was how much the ice has receded on the glacier 8212; an invaluable and rare record of climate change, global warming and glacier melts.