Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest’s highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point that several decades of accumulation
With estimated thinning rates of nearly two metre per year, glaciers on the Mount Everest such as South Col Glacier, which is located at the highest point in the world, the ice on Mount Everest has.
Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, may lose its highest glacier by the middle of this century as the 2,000-year-old ice cap thinning at an alarming rate.
In the latest report, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) noted that Everest has lost ice significantly since the late 1990s.
The report estimates that the ice of the South Cole glacier, located at 8,020 metres above sea level, is thinning at a rate of almost two metres per year.