Imja Glacier Lake
The Imja Glacier skirts the southern slope of Island Peak, Imja Tse, in the Himalayan Khumbu Range of Eastern Nepal, just southeast of Mount Everest. It originates on the western face of 7057 metre Kali Himal and is joined by Lhotse Shar and Ambulapcha Glaciers before it drains to the Imja Khota through the
Dingboche Valley to the Dudh Koshi and the Ganges River to the Indian Ocean. Imja's proglacial lake, Imja Tsho, was born in the1960s and continues to grow, filling the area left as the glacier front retreats, currently at the rate of nearly 10 metres per year. In Nepal, the average temperature has increased by 1.5 ° C since 1975. Over the last three decades, the glaciology and mass balance of
the Imja glacier have been studied by Yamada Tomomi of Hokkaido University's Institute of Low Temperature Science in Sapporo, Japan. The retreat of Imja glacier and the consequent threats are monitored by Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya and Sharad Prasad Joshi of the Nepalese development team working on the "Inventory of glaciers, glacial lakes and glacial lake outburst floods, monitoring and early warning system in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region"--a project sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).
Dingboche Valley to the Dudh Koshi and the Ganges River to the Indian Ocean. Imja's proglacial lake, Imja Tsho, was born in the1960s and continues to grow, filling the area left as the glacier front retreats, currently at the rate of nearly 10 metres per year. In Nepal, the average temperature has increased by 1.5 ° C since 1975. Over the last three decades, the glaciology and mass balance of
the Imja glacier have been studied by Yamada Tomomi of Hokkaido University's Institute of Low Temperature Science in Sapporo, Japan. The retreat of Imja glacier and the consequent threats are monitored by Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya and Sharad Prasad Joshi of the Nepalese development team working on the "Inventory of glaciers, glacial lakes and glacial lake outburst floods, monitoring and early warning system in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region"--a project sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).
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