“The ice was so thick flowing down the river. It was forming so fast. It was freezing so fast. Just amazing. I’d never seen anything like that," one of the hunters, Rex Nick, said.
The cold and wet hunters built a fire to keep warm until Alaska Army National Guard rescuers arrived hours later.
The loss of frozen ground in Arctic regions is a striking result of climate change. And it is also a cause of more warming to come.
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