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Greg Mortimer

Greg Mortimer

Australian climber

Aug 29, 2026

15:05
What's happened as far as you can understand?
15:08
Seemingly, increasingly, it seems like the top of a mountain called Langtang, Lirong, which is between Everest and K2, really.
15:23
It's north of Kathmandu, roughly, about 100 km north of Kathmandu.
15:29
And a glacier on the side of Langtang has collapsed and fallen into the narrow valleys below.
15:38
So if you imagine something, you know, five times the size of Kosciuszko, and one side of it collapses and falls into a big funnel, like a funnel which you fill with mud and ice and water, like a concrete mixer, and that flows down the narrow valleys below.
16:05
And people that are in the way are just nothing, you know.
16:11
We're just little things in the force of nature there that...
18:15
I mean, it's happened before, but not to this extent.
21:38
tell us.
21:39
Well, I didn't know what to expect of it, never having seen one before, but we're in a very beautiful place, you know, the biggest fjord system in the world.
21:48
It's called Skorsby Sund and tucked up against the Greenland ice cap and...
21:56
Then this solar eclipse came upon us on a beautiful day, clear blue skies, and then the sky starts to go dark gradually.
22:08
And it's quite eerie, and it went for about an hour.
22:11
And, I mean, the joy of being in a – we were surrounded by icebergs and big cliffs and a gorgeous place.
22:20
And then all of a sudden the lights go out.

6 MINS LATER

28:33
It affects the ocean floor, of course, and it's just the way of the world, isn't it? I mean, I assume these things have been happening forever.

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