Grendel wrote on Feb 11
th, 2018 at 3:22pm:
Facts are that a vast majority of the worlds glaciers are retreating and only a small number are advancing due to local conditions.To say that "some are and some arn't" is a complete distortion of the facts. Something that the deniers are always doing.
Breashears, who has reached the summit of Mt Everest five times, writes:
Trekking in Tibet, not far from the northern slope of Mount Everest, I carried with me a black-and-white photograph taken by the great English mountaineer, George L. Mallory, in 1921. It showed the ice-encrusted north face of Everest and, below it, the great river of ice known as the Main Rongbuk Glacier, flowing in a sweeping, S-shaped curve down a broad, stony valley.
Eighty-six years after Mallory took that photograph, I sat in the exact spot where he had snapped his iconic picture. Pulling out his photo, I was stunned by the changes that had swept over this region. The wide river of ice had retreated more than half a mile, leaving a field of separated ice pinnacles melting into the rocky ground. In the distance, the ice streams on Everest's flank also had shrunk, exposing more of the mountain's dark face.