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Above them the vast Shisper glacier dominates the landscape: A river of jagged black ice moving towards them at as much as four metres per day...
Climate change is causing most glaciers worldwide to shrink, but due to a meteorological anomaly this is one of a few in the Karakoram mountain range in northern Pakistan that are surging...
Pakistan Army Aviation pilots rescued two foreign mountain climbers from Broad Peak, Baltoro Glacier, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Sunday...
Last week, the French military conferred medals on the Pakistan Army Aviation pilots who rescued a French mountaineer from the Nanga Parbat, the world’s ninth highest peak, in a daring late-night rescue mission in 2018...
WELLINGTON: A New Zealand hiker’s body that lay frozen in a glacier for more than four decades has been formally identified, police said on Thursday...
David Erik Moen, 19, was caught in an avalanche in September 1973 on the South Island’s remote Tasman glacier, they said, after searchers at the time failed to locate his body...
NEW DELHI: The snout of the Siachen Glacier has moved a kilometre from the Indian base camp since 2005 due to climate change, but Delhi’s troops will stay in the inhospitable terrain where an avalanche killed 10 soldiers last week, reports here said on Monday...
The Hindu quoted a small signboard at the Siachen Base Camp that read: “Snout of the glacier was here on 10 April 2005...
KATHMANDU: The bodies of top mountaineer Alex Lowe and his cameraman have been found in a Himalayan glacier, 16 years after they were buried by an avalanche on one of the world’s highest mountains...
Two climbers last week came across the men’s remains “still encased in blue ice but beginning to emerge from the glacier”, a foundation set up in Lowe’s memory said in a statement...
Dr Ghulam Rasul, director-general of the Pakistan Metrological Department, told participants that the situation with regard to dwindling water resources and climatic trends was frightening, so appropriate measures should be taken to preserve the country’s cryospheric assets for the benefit of the humanity...
The PMD chief said rainfall sped up the melting process due to warm water impact on glacier ice...
ISLAMABAD: Three women tourists died on Sunday after part of a glacier fell on them while they were posing for a photograph on their way to Saiful Muluk Lake, near the Naran city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
The tourists were reportedly taking pictures under the glacier when it fell on them, which resulted in their deaths...
SRINAGAR: Ten Indian soldiers were feared buried in an avalanche that hit Siachen Glacier in the India-held portion of Kashmir on Wednesday, an army spokesman said...
The soldiers were hit while on duty at a post on the glacier at an altitude of 19,000 feet, Colonel S...
A SMALL group of young volunteers decided on their own to make a trek up the Baltoro glacier to Concordia — described by many mountaineering guidebooks as the most stunning mountain destination in the world — for an unusual purpose...
In any event, their effort draws attention to an important problem: Pakistan’s glaciers are some of the most spectacular in the world, and attract a very large number of trekkers every year...
PESHAWAR: One miner died after a glacier break-off in Kaghan Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Mansehra district buried at least ten miners on Sunday, District Police Officer (DPO) Mansehra Najeebur Rehman said...
Station House Officer Kaghan Valley police station Gulnawaz Khan said the miners had been working underneath the glacier at the time of the break-off...
Also read: Glaciers melt to lowest level on record: studyA few GLOF events have hit Pakistan’s mountainous north in the recent past, but the flooding in Chitral saw GLOFs on an unprecedented scale...
It is, therefore, heartening to see the Pakistan Meteorological Department inaugurating a programme to develop an early warning system for communities at risk; the PMD’s estimate that 36 glacial lakes in Pakistan present a GLOF threat is...
GILGIT: A small glacier melt has swollen Barsuwat Nullah in the Ishkoman valley of Ghizer district, Gilgit-Baltistan, creating an artificial lake and blocking the flow of the Immit River...
The Ishkoman valley is situated near the Pakistan- Afghanistan border area...
GILGIT: With large swathes of cultivated and other land coming under water, floodwaters and landslides blocking several vital roads and thousands of people getting marooned, flooding caused by rapid melting of glaciers has wreaked havoc across Gilgit-Baltistan...
Two people were killed when a family was hit by floodwaters, sources said on Thursday