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Everest Melting? High Signs of Climate Change

A team sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme has found signs that the landscape of Mount Everest has changed significantly since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's visit in 1953. A primary cause is the warming global climate.
The team found that the glacier that once came close to Hillary and Norgay's first camp has retreated three miles (five kilometers). A series of ponds that used to be near Island Peak -- so-called because it was then an island in a sea of ice -- had merged into a long lake.
Tashi Janghu Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountain Association, "told us that he had seen quite rapid and significant changes over the past 20 years in the ice fields and that these changes appeared to be accelerating.