From ample snow to scarcity: Silent crisis in the Himalayas

Kathmandu, May 11: David Gyabu Sherpa, a mountaineer and rescue climber, saw a lot of glacier ice around the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) base camp in 2010, when he started climbing mountains. Glaciers surrounded the base camp area back then, but now there is water all around. “The glacier level has retreated from where it used to be,” he said.