Climate Change Is Melting Everest

[wayno]

Climate Change Is Melting Everest
Research shows that higher temperatures around the world’s tallest peak are thawing its glaciers, which could spell doom for villages in the Khumbu Valley

http://www.outsideonline.com/2067651/cl ... ng-everest

Avalanches hamper mountaineers’ preparations
http://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/aval ... parations/

[north-north-west]

Presumably means increased avalanche danger during the climbing season too. And probably more climbers pushing the Sherpas to take even greater risks so they (climbers) get their money's worth.

[wayno]

theres widespread worries about lakes up and down the himalayas filling up and breaching, flooding occupied valley's below, every year the lakes get bigger...