This summer, 19 high school students from Chicago, DC, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle spent a month in Washington’s North Cascades to learn about and witness climate change. The feature essay Living on Glacial Time is by writer Ana Maria Spagna, who accompanied the group.

Below is a video documenting the students’ experience.

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Photographs and audio by the students. Video, editing and production by Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele.

This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Parks Climate Challenge: North Cascades 2009.

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Parks Climate Challenge: North Cascades 2009

by Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele, High Country News
September 14, 2009

<h1>Parks Climate Challenge: North Cascades 2009</h1>
<p class="byline">by Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele, High Country News <br />September 14, 2009</p>
 
<p>This summer, 19 high school students from Chicago, DC, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle spent a month in Washington’s North Cascades to learn about and witness climate change. The feature essay <a href="living-on-glacial-time">Living on Glacial Time</a> is by writer Ana Maria Spagna, who accompanied the group.</p>
<p>Below is a video documenting the students’ experience.</p>
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<p>Photographs and audio by the students. Video, editing and production by <a href="http://www.bendrum.com/multimedia/pcc/">Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele.</a></p>
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