This picture shows two members of expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" climbing down the Pamir glacier carrying ice core samples in a cooler box to the base camp in Kon Chukurbashi, Eastern Tajikistan on September 25, 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)