Agricultural land, Nepal
Predicting the future response of mountain glaciers is fraught with difficulty. The world’s mountain ranges encompass a huge range of topographic and climatic environments, and each glacier has a unique relationship with local terrain and microclimate. Indeed, local variation is so great that it is impossible to make general statements about glacier response even within single mountain ranges.
Year: 2012
From album: Glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
Photographer: Lawrence Hislop