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The Glacial Rivers That Flow Upstream – And the Science Behind It

Suhail Ahmed

It sounds like a magic trick: a glacier-fed river that seems to climb uphill, defying gravity in broad daylight. Field teams have filmed stretches where the current runs toward the mountains, and even seasoned guides do a double take. The truth is stranger and more elegant than illusion, wrapped in the physics of ice, pressure, ...