A member of the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" climbs up the Pamir Glacier protected from the sun with an umbrella, in Kon Chukurbashi, eastern Tajikistan on September 24, 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)