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Glaciers are melting on Everest

26.03.2019

On the slopes of Mount Everest (Chomolungma), in recent years, the bodies of dead climbers have been increasingly found. This is due to the melting of glaciers. A growing body of evidence points to rapid glacier melt in the Everest region and the Himalayas in general.

In the decades that have passed since the beginning of ascents to the peak, almost 300 climbers have died in these places. Two-thirds of them remain buried under a layer of snow and ice. The record for the number of deaths was the 2015 season, when 24 people died due to landslides and avalanches while climbing.

In total, more than 4 thousand people tried to conquer the summit of Everest.

In 2016, the Nepalese military drained Lake Imja at the foot of the mountain, which had overflowed as a result of the rapid melting of neighboring glaciers.

Another group of British glaciologists drilled on the surface of the Khumbu Glacier last year and found that the ice is warmer than expected. Ice samples collected showed a temperature of only minus 3,3 degrees Celsius, which is 2 degrees higher than the average annual air temperature in the area. "Due to global warming, the glaciers on the mountain slopes are melting fast, and the bodies of the dead, which were hidden by ice all these years, are becoming visible," says Ang Tenzing, former president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.

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