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Himalayas Unsettled by Melting Glaciers, More Avalanches (Bhuwan Sharma)

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The Tso Rolpa glacial lake in central Nepal has grown due to the faster melting of snow with global warming. (Credit:Kishor Rimal/IPS)
The Tso Rolpa glacial lake in central Nepal has grown due to the faster melting of snow with global warming. (Credit:Kishor Rimal/IPS)

Oct. 4, 2010 -- KATHMANDU (Inter Press Service) -- For the last two climbing seasons, Dawa Sherpa has missed scaling the summit of Mt Everest. But the climate ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and two-time Everest summiteer may not be relishing the thought of bearing witness once more to the impact of rising temperatures on the world’s highest peak.

 

Indeed, he says that even making one’s way just up to Base Camp, which lies at an altitude of 5,380 metres, can already give one the dismal view of the devastation climate change is wreaking. 

"Snow cover in the mountains is decreasing, crevasses are opening up in the glaciers," says Dawa. "Avalanches (have been) occurring frequently (in) the past two years."

In 2010, one of his Sherpa staff lost his life to an avalanche. Dawa also recalls Appa Sherpa, the 20-time Everest summiteer who has been climbing Everest since 1990, as saying last year that he has seen small puddles of water even at an altitude of 8,000 metres.

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