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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to chase glaciers — not as a tourist, but as a purpose? ❄️ This isn’t just a video about melting ice. It’s about melting timelines. About the urgency buried deep within the mountains. About what could unfold in the next 50 years — if we keep looking away.

In this deeply personal and data-rich episode, we sit down with Tirthankar Ghosh, a Ph.D. scholar at IIT Bombay and Monash University, as he unravels how one life-altering experience — the devastating 2013 Kedarnath disaster — became the turning point of his life and career in glaciology.

Through heartfelt anecdotes and hard science, Tirthankar reflects on:
✅ How childhood road trips in the Himalayas planted the seeds of curiosity
✅ What glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) really are — and how they’re reshaping our future
✅ The chilling reality of vanishing villages in Ladakh, like Kumig, already abandoned due to disappearing glaciers
✅ Why people in cities like Delhi and Mumbai cannot afford to ignore mountain science
✅ And how AI, research, and long-term thinking must come together for global climate action

This is not just a scientific conversation. It’s a call to reflect on what connects all of us — water, land, climate, and time.

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