Glaciers are melting fast on the world’s highest mountain. Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with researcher Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa, who is studying how climate change is affecting the mountain and the people who depend on it as part of a National Geographic Society expedition.

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