Renowned climate scientist Konrad Steffen dies after falling through ice in Greenland

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Beloved U.S.-Swiss climate scientist and glaciologist Konrad "Koni" Steffen died Saturday while doing research in Greenland. He was 68.

Steffen fell into a deep crevasse full of water, Swiss media reports say, after snow and ice gave way beneath him while he worked near a weather station. Rescue attempts were unsuccessful, and his body was not found.

Jason Box, an ice climatologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland who was with Steffen before he died, said he believed his friend "remains 8 meters down in the water," according to CBS News.

"Personally, Koni was like a father," Box told CBS. "Immense man. Immense loss. Tears falling around the world."

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[diva77]

1. K&R for exposure. We can't afford to lose climate scientists.

[jpak]

2. That is so horrible

I spent more than a year of my life in the Arctic and Antarctic.

This was my worst nightmare.

RIP

[liberalla]

3. Oh, Damn! That's horrible. I'm assuming this is an area that was hard frozen in the past

and he felt safe working there ? Just tragic.