Researchers have made a devastating discovery towards the top of the highest mountain in the world, which is melting faster than ever before.
A new finding shows that at the top of Mt Everest, where a glacier took 2000 years to form, has melted completely in around 25 years. Essentially meaning, asThe researchers, which included both scientists and climbers, scaled Everest in 2019 and collected samples from a 10-meter-long ice core.
“We’re hoping that what’s happened high up on Everest will be another iconic call and demonstration,” Mr Mayewski said. This particular research was the first large-scale, detailed analysis of the phenomenon in mountain glaciers and could help forecast major water shortages and huge flood waves. As rising temperatures cause the leading edge – the tongue – of a glacier to melt, the retreating ice leaves behind deposits of rock debris.
“The findings were clear: glaciers that flowed into a lake moved on average almost 20 metres per year; in other words, more than twice as fast as those that terminated on land,” they said in a statement.
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