Turquoise lakes. Towering Himalayan peaks. A maze of rock, ice and meltwater. At first glance, this hardly looks like a glacier at all (Figure 1)… Yet as glaciers thin and retreat across the Himalayas, networks of meltwater ponds and glacial lakes are forming both on glacier surfaces and at their margins: one of the most visible signs of a changing high-mountain landscape. I spent four weeks in Ne ...[Read More]
Chasing glacial lakes in the shadow of Everest
Figure 1. Drone image of glacial lakes on the debris-covered surface of the Khumbu Glacier, Sagarmāthā National Park, Nepal. [Credit: Lauren D.Rawlins]
