The Everest melts and the missing bodies are found – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Mount Everest expedition operators discover an increasing number of corpses of mountaineers at the highest peak in the world, while high temperatures are melting glaciers and snow.

More than 200 mountaineers have died at the summit since 1922, the year of the death of the first mountaineers on Everest. Most bodies are thought to have been buried under glaciers or snow.

"Due to the impact of climate change and global warming, snow and glaciers are melting fast and bodies are being discovered and discovered by mountaineers," former President of Nepal, CNN Ang Tshering Sherpa told CNN. Mountaineering Association. .

Sobit Kunwar, head of the National Association of Mountain Guides of Nepal, told CNN: "This is a very serious problem as it is becoming more common and affects our operations. We are really worried about this because it's getting worseHe added. "We are trying to disseminate information about this so that there is a coordinated way to handle that."

The treasurer of the badociation, Tenzeeng Sherpa, said that climate change is rapidly affecting Nepal, and said: in some areas, glaciers melt one meter per year.

"Most of the corpses we bring to the cities, but those we can not remove, we respect by praying for them and covering them with stones or snow," he said.

He lamented the lack of action of the authorities in the face of dead corpses in the mountains. "We have not seen the government take any responsibility," he said.