Scientists: Mount Everest's Snow and Ice is Melting Catholic Online
go to original May 15, 2013

Panoramic view of West Rongbuk Glacier and Mount Everest, taken in 1921 (top) by Major E.O. Wheeler and in 2009 (bottom) by David Breashears. (Royal Geographical Society)

CANCUN, Mexico - According to researchers, glaciers around Mount Everest have shrunk by about 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has moved upwards by almost 600 feet. Sudeep Thakuri, a researcher from the University of Milan in Italy made the announcement.

At 29,029 feet, Everest is popularly known as the "roof of the world" and is normally cloaked in perpetual snow and ice. To see that even there, global warming is melting the snow, is alarming to some.

However, researchers cautioned that jumping to the global warming conclusion would be premature. Their work, they acknowledge, only measured the amount of snow and ice loss from the mountain and the surrounding region. They did not do any studies to merit claims of causation.

Not all of the glaciers in the Himalayas are melting either, however the majority of them are. Glaciers in the Karakoram Mountains on the border between China, India, and Pakistan appear to be holding steady for now.

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