Nepal's Yala Glacier Declared 'Dead' Amid Global Warming Concerns.
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In May 2025, the Yala Glacier, located in Langtang Valley, Nepal, was officially declared "dead" during Asia's first glacier funeral. The glacier has lost 66% of its ice mass and retreated 784 meters since the 1970s, underscoring the devastating effects of climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region.
- The symbolic event was coordinated by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based in Kathmandu, Nepal, and brought together over 50 glaciologists, Buddhist monks, and local community members from Nepal, India, China, and Bhutan.
Main Point :- (i) Installed at the base of Yala Glacier, these featured multilingual messages in English, Nepali, and Tibetan, authored by Manjushree Thapa and Andri Snær Magnason
(ii) Yala became the third glacier globally and the first in Asia to receive a memorial of this nature, after Iceland’s Okjökull (2019) and Mexico’s Ayoloco (2021).
(iii) Yala Glacier was one of seven glaciers in the HKH region that had been under annual scientific observation for over a decade.
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President: Ram Chandra Poudel
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