Video transcript: 'Facing up to the challenges of research on the world's highest glacier'

Transcript for the video embedded in the Minimising the impact of glaciers spotlight.

[Duncan Quincey is on-screen, looking at the camera. Behind him are snowy mountain peaks and low clouds.]

Duncan: We faced quite a few challenges of working up at Camp Two. I would say mainly physical ones.

Of course, there's the altitude itself. It's very tiring, makes you feel extremely lethargic, and the lack of oxygen means that it's difficult to get any decent sleep at night at all.

And then those night time temperatures of around -15, -16° give way to extreme solar radiation as soon as the sun comes up over the mountain tops, such that you're looking for the shade, you're in shirt sleeves, and you're working in conditions which I would say are very challenging and maybe even oppressive up there in the Western Cwm.

[Video ends.]