This picture shows the base Camp of the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" at the foot of the Pamir Glacier in Kon Chukurbashi, eastern Tadjikistan 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)

This picture shows members of the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" climbing up Pamir Glacier, in Kon Chukurbashi, eastern Tadjikistan 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)

This picture shows Switzerland's Glaciologist Andreas Henz climbing down the glacier during the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" at Pamir Glacier in Kon Chukurbashi, Eastern Tadjikistan 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)

Russia's Ivan Lavrentiev and Tadjikistan's Jahongir Abdullov, members of the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" climb up at the base of Pamir Glacier in Kon Chukurbashi, eastern Tadjikistan, 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)

Members of "Pamir Ice memory" expedition set their gear at the foot of Pamir Glacier in Kon Chukurbashi eastern Tadjikistan 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)

This picture shows Japan's Glaciologists Ken Kondo (R) and Koji Fujita from Nagoya University packing a "carrot" of ice near Russia's Scientist Stas Kutuzov as part of the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" at the Pamir glacier in Kon Chukurbashi, Eastern Tadjikistan 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)

This picture shows members of the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" climbing up Pamir Glacier, in Kon Chukurbashi, eastern Tadjikistan 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)

This picture shows expedition chief Evan Miles (R) and Russia's paleoclimatologist and glaciologist Stanislav Kutuzov, (L) taking a "carrot" of ice out of the Pamir glacier as part of the expedition "Pamir-Ice-Memory" in Kon Chukurbashi, Eastern Tadjikistan, 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)