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The Mountain Institute

hopes to assess the threat to villagers living Imja from below - and provide solutions

It's a strange feeling to look

dying glaciers, snow sliding off the cliff massive black, punctuated by cracks of large blocks of ice falling away. The Mountain Institute has been-what, the last two days, watching the scene at Lake Imja.

Imja

The growing faster glacial lake in Nepal. Simply-TIC of proof of existence is to rise the rate of climate change in the high mountains of the Himalayas. Glaciers are melting - although some may remain in solid blocks of ice for hundreds more years - and they were splashing the glacier high altitude lakes like Imja.

Lake

you gray-green mud, rises to 5100 meters. It is a nine-day trek from the nearest airport at Lukla, and several days to electricity or telephone service.

Even the government of Nepal

rarely venture here. So by bringing together 32 scientists from 13 countries, such as Mountain Institute has done, is a logistical nightmare. Some mornings outside the tent. The objective is a clear day, spectacular views of the Lhotse There are mountains and across the river nups.
The Mountain Institute

It was Difficult to get a straight answer over the years on the probability of one day breaking Imja ICT banks, which are made of rocks and debris on the ice. By this point, ute, the local people who have traveled over the lake from near Dingboche to say what is careful to say melting glaciers about science.
"We lived in the shadow of this lake for so long," Ang Nima Sherpa, a local businessman told me. "The only thing that interests me. Now it's about understanding that they may get out of a hydroelectric plant in this lake."