As the mountaineering community prepares to celebrate the 70 anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest, there is rising concern about melting glaciers, rising temperatures and unpredictable weather on the world's highest mountain
As the mountaineering community prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest, there is growing concern about temperatures rising, glaciers and snow melting, and weather getting harsh and unpredictable on the world's tallest mountain.
The deteriorating conditions on Everest are raising concerns for the mountaineering community and the people whose livelihoods depend on the flow of visitors.The Sherpa community, who grow up on the foothills of the snow-covered mountain they worship as the mother of the world, is the most startled.Sherpas have been campaigning for years to save the Himalayan peaks from the effects of global warming.
The effects of climate change and global warming have been severe in the high Himalayan area, Ang Tshering said. “The rising temperature of the Himalayan area is more than the global average, so the snow and ice are melting fast and the mountain is turning black, the glaciers are melting and lakes are drying up.”
“We don’t really need to wait for the future; we are seeing the impact already,” said Phurba Tenjing, a Sherpa guide who recently scaled the peak for the 16th time guiding foreign clients to the summit. Researchers found that the highest glacier on the mountain, the South Col Glacier, has lost more than 54 metres of thickness in the past 25 years. A team of 10 scientists visited the glacier and installed two weather monitoring stations — the world’s highest — and extracted samples from a 10-metre-long ice core.
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