Climate & Environment
The ice below Everest is measurably shrinking — a decades-long record of retreat that pours extra water into Nepal's rivers now, but threatens the…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 26, 2026
Stand on the moraine above Everest Base Camp and you are looking at a river of ice that is quietly getting smaller. Nepal's glaciers — the Khumbu below Everest, the Rongbuk on the mountain's Tibetan flank, the ice fields above Langtang and Annapurna — are…
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The Khumbu is the largest glacier in Nepal and among the highest on Earth, running roughly 17 kilometres from its source in the Western Cwm high on Everest down to a terminus near 4,900 metres — the same tongue of ice that feeds the notorious Khumbu Icefall…
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Nepal is warming, and the trend is visible in the instrument record: the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology reported an all-Nepal annual maximum temperature rising about 0.056°C a year between 1971 and 2014 — a little over half a degree per decade…
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Here is the paradox at the heart of the story. In the near term, faster melt means more water pouring off the mountains, along with unstable, freshly exposed ice and rock. That extra runoff pools behind loose walls of glacial debris to form meltwater lakes —…
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