Highest glacier of Everest is rapidly losing ice

 The South Col glacier become thinning extra than eighty times quicker than the time it took to shape.

Ice on a glacier close to the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shriveled dramatically in the closing 3 decades due to weather change, a new observe has shown.

The South Col formation may have already got misplaced around 55 metres of thickness inside the closing 25 years, according to research led with the aid of the university of Maine and posted this week through Nature.

Carbon courting showed the pinnacle layer of ice was round 2,000 years antique, suggesting that the glacier changed into thinning extra than eighty times quicker than the time it took to form, the observe said.

At that price, South Col was "probably going to vanish within very few decades," lead scientist Paul Mayewski told national Geographic.

"it's quite a exceptional transition," he brought.

The South Col glacier is round 7,900 metres above sea stage and a kilometre under the height of the arena's highest mountain.

other researchers have proven that Himalayan glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate.

because the glaciers shrink, loads of lakes have formed in the foothills of Himalayan mountains that would burst and unharness floods.

Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa, who has climbed Everest a report 25 instances in view that 1994, instructed AFP on Saturday he had witnessed modifications on the mountain firsthand.

"We now see rock uncovered in regions wherein there used to be snow before. no longer simply on Everest, different mountains also are dropping their snow and ice. it is disturbing," Sherpa told AFP.

Himalayan glaciers are a critical water source for nearly two billion people living across the mountains and river valleys under.

They feed 10 of the sector's maximum important river structures and additionally assist deliver billions of human beings with meals and power.

The water-related influences of climate trade are already skilled daily by way of hundreds of thousands of humans global, according to UN climate scientists.