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Around 500 climbers, including four Indians, conquer Mt Everest in 70th anniversary year of first successful summit

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Official data showed that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 7,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest while over 300 have lost their lives.

A glacier baby is born: Mating glaciers to replace water lost to climate change

A farmer and a village leader in Pakistan's highlands decided it was time to try to make a glacier baby.

11 Dec 2023 Video News
Video: South Asia’s glacial lakes at risk of flooding

Global warming is causing glacial lakes in mountainous regions of South Asia to flood suddenly--sometimes with fatal results.

13 Feb 2024 GRAPE
Nepal Farmers Face Another Year of ‘Agricultural Drought’, Threatening Food Security

Najboon Khatun looks up at the sky every day, searching for the possibility of rain. Clouds come and go without ...

Permafrost thaw, a ticking time bomb beneath our feet

Permanently frozen terrain covers 22% of the Earth’s surface. This area is more than 112 million square kilometres. People call ...

10 Dec 2023 GLOFs
2m face Glacial flooding in Pakistan

Fifteen million people worldwide are at risk of glacial lake flooding, with two million of them in Pakistan, according to ...

19 Dec 2023 AAF: Global advocacy
COP28 spotlights key climate battle: Saving Himalayan ice

From Afghanistan to China, vanishing glaciers risk floods and drought for billions

4 Dec 2023 COP28
Report reveals ‘catastrophic loss’ to Himalayan glaciers ‘even at 2C’

With COP28 underway in Dubai, researchers say climate negotiations should pay more attention to mountain regions, particularly the Hindu Kush ...

15 Dec 2023 GLOFs
More Than 7,000 Lives Lost to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in High Mountain Asia

This was revealed by a new dataset released by the Kathmandu-based ICIMOD on Friday; Impacts from GLOF events have increased ...