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The Ghaghara River, also known as the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and as the Sarayu River in the lower Ghaghara of India's Awadh, [1] [2] is a perennial trans-boundary river that originates in the northern slopes of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau, cuts through the Himalayas in Nepal and joins the Sharda River at Brahmaghat in India.
Fedchenko Glacier, Landsat 7 satellite image, 2008-08-22 Fedchenko Glacier in 1982 by Jaan Künnap during expedition to Tartu Ülikool 350. The Fedchenko Glacier (Russian: Ледник Федченко) or the Vanch-Yakh Glacier (Tajik: Пиряхи Ванҷях) is a large glacier in the Yazgulem Range, Pamir Mountains, of north-central Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan.
Its glacier is the source of water for the population of the Bolivar and Chimborazo provinces of Ecuador. Chimborazo glacier's ice mass has decreased over the past decades, which is thought to be in large part due to climate change, as well as ash cover from recent volcanic activity [note 2] at Tungurahua, and the El Niño phenomenon. [10] [11]
The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) was started in 1986, combining the two former services PSFG (Permanent Service on Fluctuations of Glaciers) and TTS/WGI (Temporal Technical Secretary/World Glacier Inventory). It is a service of the International Association of the Cryospheric Sciences of the International Union of Geodesy and ...
The glacier covers a 31 km 2 (12 sq mi) area of Conch Gully and is characterized as a modern glacier, having formed 16 million years ago. [1] At its most extreme, the glacier reaches a low altitude of 2,850 m (9,350 ft) above sea level and reaches a high of 6,750 m (22,150 ft), and is also about 14.7 km (9.1 mi) long.
The first attempt was in 1996 via the Dakshini Balati Glacier on the Munsiyari side. This attempt ended after an accident and an avalanche occurred. [ 2 ] The second attempt was done in 1998, by a large Indian Army expedition, led by Colonel Bhatt of the Engineer Corps of the Indian Army , via the Duktu Glacier on the Dhauli Ganga river side.
The glaciers of Chile cover 2.7% (20,188 km 2) of the land area of the country, excluding Antártica Chilena, and have a considerable impact on its landscape and water supply.
The Imja Glacier on the other hand is oriented in a north-westerly direction and has its terminus at about 5,100 m (16,700 ft). These two glaciers coalesce approximately 3.5 km above the terminus and flow westwards just beneath the trekking path of Imja Tse. An east-facing view of the confluence of Imja Tsho and the Imja Glacier.