A fateful avalanche shake Mount Everest this morning , claiming the lifespan of at least a dozen Sherpa pathfinder . decent now , geoscientist and Scientific American blogger Ulyana Horodyskyj is presently on the spate documenting her squad ’s ascent .
The second installment in Horodyskyj ’s on-going seriesjust went live a few hour ago . According to an postscript from her editor program , she submitted her Emily Post this morning , along with an update on her status . She and her mathematical group are dependable , though a friend of one of the Sherpas aid her team was killed in the avalanche .
Horodyskyj and her team of scientists are on Everest to investigate how much carbon black is fall on coke at the top of the region ’s stupendous glaciers . As with most forms of fieldwork , her inquiry carry with it a certain – or , in this lawsuit , high – element of risk . It will be interesting to see how this dawning ’s upshot involve her reportage going forward . Horodyskyj ’s second web log entry was drop a line prior to this morning ’s snowslide , and so make no mention of it . Still , one has to imagine the avalanche will affect the arc of her coverage – for the next installing , at a very minimum .
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