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    University of Maine graduate student Laura Mattas on Thursday describes to eighth-graders at Bruce M. Whittier Middle School in Poland how mountaineers wake before dawn to attempt their summit of Mount Everest with headlamps. Mattas and Peter Strand talked about their science expedition to study glaciers.

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    University of Maine graduate student Peter Strand grew up in Yarmouth and spent time this past spring studying glaciers on Mount Everest.

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    University of Maine graduate student Laura Mattas talks with students at Bruce M. Whittier Middle School in Poland on Thursday about her expedition to Mount Everest to study glaciers last spring.

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    University of Maine graduate students Laura Mattas and Peter Strand answer questions from seventh-graders at Bruce M. Whittier Middle School in Poland on Thursday. The two talked about their expedition on Mount Everest to study glaciers.

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    University of Maine graduate student Laura Mattas shows students at Bruce M. Whittier Middle School in Poland on Thursday a picture of her celebrating graduation day with scientists at a base camp on Mount Everest last spring. Mattas and Peter Strand were members of an expedition studying glaciers.

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    Shawn Vincent, principal of Bruce M. Whittier Middle School in Poland, center, talks to University of Maine graduate students Peter Strand and Laura Mattas on Thursday about their expedition to Mount Everest last spring to study glaciers.

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    University of Maine graduate students Peter Strand and Laura Mattas talk to seventh-graders at Bruce M. Whittier Middle School in Poland on Thursday about their expedition to study glaciers on Mount Everest.

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