Mount Everest is losing snow and turning “dry and rocky”, British climber Kenton Cool says after making his record-setting 17th ascent of the world’s highest peak
"If you go back to the early mid-2000s there used to be a lot of snow," Kenton Cool says in an interview in Kathmandu after returning from his record-setting expedition.Cool says he has never seen the types of rock falls he saw on the Lhotse Face, along the route to the Everest summit, before. / Photo: Reuters
The 49-year-old Cool, who climbed the 8,849-metre peak for the first time in 2004, said on Saturday the giant mountain appears to be drying now. "That shows how dry the mountain is now ... I think that is because of the lack of precipitation, a lack of snowfall. It could be global warming or any environmental change of some sort," he said.Climate scientists say the earth’s temperature has increased by an average of 0 .74 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years, but warming across the Himalayas has been greater than the global averages.
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