Global warming threatens climbing tourism in Nepal

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="line-height:1.6em">ArabiaWeather.com- <strong>The melting of glaciers</strong> warns of the possibility of more deadly disasters, such as the avalanche that occurred at the summit of Everest last month, and therefore <strong>climate change</strong> and global warming threaten mountaineering tourism in Nepal, according to what scientists and specialists said.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">More than two thousand foreign climbers come to Nepal annually to climb Everest, which is the highest peak in the world (8850 meters), as this tourism generates about $ 3.4 million annually for the country.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">The International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal, stated in a report that global warming led to the shrinkage of the total area of glaciers by nearly a quarter between 1977 and 2010, at a rate of 38 km annually.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">Reuters quoted chief author of the report, Samgwal Baghrachrya, as saying that the occurrence of avalanches, such as the one that struck the climbing camp at the base <strong>of Mount Everest</strong> last month, may be repeated due to global warming, according to Al Jazeera Net.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">The avalanche that occurred on April 18th, killing 16 guides, is the worst disaster ever seen on Mount Everest.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">It is noteworthy that nearly 60 people were killed in May 2012 in the famous Annapurna summit area in western Nepal, after strong floods, triggered by an avalanche, swept Nepalese homes.</span></p>