A trailblazing climate scientist, Perry says his formative years in South America’s highlands helped shape the ethos of his research today—to understand weather and climate in the world’s most remote mountains, with local communities as his guide
Perry calls the experience “an embrace and celebration of Indigenous Andean culture and people. That was a really fun and rewarding part of the Ausangate expedition.”
“Really, our hope is that the station will directly improve projections of the future ice extent on Ausangate and neighboring peaks, which will then allow for much better determination of water resource availability for communities downstream,” Perry says. The two expeditions bore unique hurdles. Perry and his team were hit by a severe ground blizzard while scaling the Chilean mountains. And though Tupungato bests Ausangate in height by around 600 feet, Perry says the latter was much more technically challenging.
“We actually had to dig nearly ten feet down to set the center masts. Then, because it snows so much, we had to make sure the instruments were seven to nine feet above the snow surface,” he recalls. Without a ladder, a Peruvian colleague stood on Perry’s back to get the job done. His time is spread thin, but he fulfills his duties by staying creative. Sometimes he files students’ final grades from a tent at basecamp. To stay in summiting shape while at home, he takes his gym to his kids’ activities.
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