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SOUTH COL GLACIER            

12th February, 2022

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Context

  • Recently, researchers led by the University of Maine found that the South Col Glacier (on Mount Everest) has lost more than 180ft (54m) of thickness in the last 25 years.
  • The rate of ice loss measured is more than 80 times faster than the 2000 years it took to form this thickness of ice.

 

About

  • The South Col is a sharp-edged col between Mount Everest and Lhotse, the highest and fourth-highest mountains in the world, respectively.
  • At a mean elevation of 7,985 mean sea level, this glacier is the highest glacier in the world.
  • With estimated thinning rates of nearly 2 m per year even glaciers such as South Col Glacier, which is located at the highest point in the world, may vanish by mid-century.

 

Important Glaciers of the Himalayas Mountains

Name of Glacier

Location

Siachen

Eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas

Fedchenko (It is the longest glacier in the world outside of the polar regions)

Karakoram

Hispar

Karakoram

Biafo

Karakoram

Baltoro

Karakoram

Rongbuk

Kanchenjunga-Everest

Chongo-Lungma

Karakoram

Khurdaplo

Karakoram

LoLofond

Karakoram

Yarkand Rimo

Karakoram

Gangotri

Kumaon-Garhwal

Godwin Austen

Karakoram

Pasu

Karakoram

Zemu

Kanchenjunga-Everest

Chong Kumdan

Karakoram

Kanchenjunga

Kanchenjunga-Everest

Milam

Kumaon-Garhwal

Chungpur

Pir Panjal

To Lam Bau

Kanchenjunga-Everest

Bhagirath Kharak

Kumaon-Garhwal

Sonapani

Pir Panjal

Bara Shighi

Pir Panjal

Rakhiot

Pir Panjal

Gangri

Pir Panjal

Rambang

Kanchenjunga-Everest

Kafni Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Kalabaland Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Kedar Bamak Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Meola Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Namik Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Panchchuli Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Pindari Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Ralam Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Sona Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Satopanth Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Sunderdhunga Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Dokriani Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Chorabari Glacier

Kumaon-Garhwal

Lonak

North-east Himalayas

Chhota Shigri

Pir Panjal

Trango

Karakoram

 

https://www.livemint.com/science/news/mount-everest-s-highest-glacier-shrinking-dramatically-lost-180-ft-thickness-in-25-yrs-study-11644064532344.html