This picture shows statue marking a high pass between Murghab and Jalandi down the valley off the Pamir Glacier during the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory", in Kon Chukurbashi, eastern Tajikistan on September 26, 2025, At more than 5,800 meters above sea level, an international team of scientists is drilling deep into the Pamir glaciers of Tajikistan to extract the region's first-ever deep ice cores to preserve the Earth's climatic memory before global warming erases it forever. (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)