by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Taking a glacier’s pulse Ulyana Horodyskyj rappels down a ridge on the Ngozumpa Glacier in the Himalaya mountain range. Working at about 5,000 m above sea level — Tibet to the north and Nepal to the south — her stunning view of snow-capped peaks is breathtaking....
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Caught on Video: A Himalayan Glacier Deflates Himalayan glaciers are melting and retreating at their edges because of global warming. But they also conceal a more ominous effect of climate change: they are deflating. They are losing internal ice mass to melting, which...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Taking the pulse of Ngozumpa It’s not the greatest glacier to look at – far from it. It’s smothered in a layer of rocky debris that’s fallen from the surrounding cliffs, giving it a very grey, dirty appearance. But Ngozumpa is generating a lot...