image: This is the Hongu Nup Glacier and its glacial lake with Mt. Ama Dablam, Nepal Himalaya, showing cryosphere complex at high elevation. This photo was taken in November 2007. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the April 20, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Tobias Bolch at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "The State and Fate of Himalayan Glaciers." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Koji Fujita/Nagoya University