Mount Everest Shrink

When Khim Lal Gautam reached the top of Mount Everest at 3 a.m. on May 22, it was dark, windy and lethally cold. Gautam carried some unusual baggage - a ground-penetrating radar and a top-of-the-line satellite navigation device. Unlike most climbers, he and his team remained at the summit for nearly two hours so they could take the measurements the...

According to India's surveyor-general, a school of thought has grown that Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, has shrunk.

The Survey of India will soon embark on a project to "re-measure" the height of Mount Everest following doubts expressed by a section of scientific community about the world's highest peak shrinking, after the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal nearly two years ago.

Mount Everest is getting warmer for the past 50 years with the glaciers around the world's highest peak shrinking "remarkably", according to a Chinese research. The glaciers in 8,844-metre-high Mt Everest, known as Mt Qomolangma in Tibet, have been shrinking "remarkably" swelling glacial lakes and rivers downstream, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hun...

Glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, home to several Himalayan rivers, have been shrunk by 15 per cent in the past three decades and the situation could worsen in future due to global warming, Chinese scientists say.

Nepal cabinet meets at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.

When Khim Lal Gautam reached the top of Mount Everest at 3 a.m. on May 22, it was dark, windy and lethally cold. Gautam carried some unusual baggage - a ground-penetrating radar and a top-of-the-line satellite navigation device. Unlike most climbers, he and his team remained at the summit for nearly two hours so they could take the measurements the...

According to India's surveyor-general, a school of thought has grown that Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, has shrunk.

The Survey of India will soon embark on a project to "re-measure" the height of Mount Everest following doubts expressed by a section of scientific community about the world's highest peak shrinking, after the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal nearly two years ago.

Mount Everest is getting warmer for the past 50 years with the glaciers around the world's highest peak shrinking "remarkably", according to a Chinese research. The glaciers in 8,844-metre-high Mt Everest, known as Mt Qomolangma in Tibet, have been shrinking "remarkably" swelling glacial lakes and rivers downstream, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hun...

Glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, home to several Himalayan rivers, have been shrunk by 15 per cent in the past three decades and the situation could worsen in future due to global warming, Chinese scientists say.

Nepal cabinet meets at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.