Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a local.
The icebreaker Araon had been parked nose-to-nose with Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier for days, but stubborn low clouds made it impossible to land helicopters on the glacier and start the expedition’s main research project.
So the ship set sai... [1091 chars]