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Junior researchers must know how to navigate dangers in the field, says Elizabeth Orr.
  1. Elizabeth Orr

    1. Elizabeth Orr is a PhD student in geology at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.

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I still have flashbacks to the day I had a narrow brush with death during fieldwork in the Himalayas. I can still feel the bitter cold of the river, the muffled roar of the surging waters around me and the chest-crushing panic of oxygen deprivation. I remember the currents pulling at my rucksack, dragging and twisting me down underwater. My brain was screaming: you must breathe.

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Nature 551, 663-665 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-07529-6

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