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Yala Glacier
May 20 , 2025
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- Nepal’s Yala glacier is believed to be the first Nepalese glacier to be declared “dead”.
- It is one of 54,000 glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas.
- Yala has already shrunk by 66 per cent and receded nearly 800 metres since the 1970s.
- Yala is the first glacier in Asia and the third glacier worldwide to carry a plaque with words by author, Andri Snaer Magnason in its memory.
- As per the World Meteorological Organisation, the period between 2022 and 2024 witnessed the largest three-year loss of glacier mass on record.
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