The deteriorating conditions on Everest are raising concerns for the mountaineering community and the people whose livelihoods depend on the flow of visitors.
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“The effects of climate change are hitting not just the fishes of Antarctica, the whales or the penguins, but it’s having a direct impact on the Himalayan mountains and the people there,” said Ang Tshering, a prominentwho has been campaigning for years to save the Himalayan peaks and surrounding areas 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 is 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, aPhurba Tenjing has been climbing Everest since he was 17. He said both the snow and ice have melted and the trek that used to take five or six hours over the icy path now only takes half an hour because the glaciers have melted and bare rocks are exposed.
Researchers found that the highest glacier on the mountain, the South Col Glacier, has lost more than 54 meters 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-meter-long ice core.
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