Alejandra Borunda
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325 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Alejandra Borunda’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These giant mountains were covered in glaciers to our left.
It was just a super dramatic landscape.
And there's pretty much no one up there.
So it took us like two days, but we finally made it up to the northernmost airstrip on the planet.
That is our pilot, Kitty.
Oh yeah.
But after we landed, our final destination was actually still eight miles away and another mile out across the sea ice.
I run a lot, so I thought eight miles, that's like not that big a deal.
But I will say that it was basically the hardest eight miles I've ever hiked.
And that was mostly...
thanks to climate change.
Yeah.
So, you know, we thought that this ground was going to be totally firm and like frozen permafrost because past explorers, that's what they saw.
But the week before we arrived, it had been nearly 60 degrees Fahrenheit up there.
And we were carrying these 70 or 80 pound packs and dragging a bunch of our other gear.
And we were just sinking into this boggy, squishy permafrost, which was thawing because of global warming.
And then there were all these rivers.
We expected little streams.
That was what was on the maps.
But a lot of nearby ice and snow was melting because it was so warm.
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