Climate change may turn Mt Everest climb ice-free (m.T)

London: A mission launched to measure changes in the Himalayas due to climate change, has claimed that the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, is losing its ice rapidly. A US-funded mission led by the Mountain Institute will be meeting in Kathmandu to try and find practical solutions to the threat of catastrophic high-altitude flooding from lakes forming at the foot of melting glaciers.