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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hope on October 31, 2016, 08:26:16 AM

Title: Glacial lake tapped
Post by: Hope on October 31, 2016, 08:26:16 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37797559

In amongst all the unpleasant stories that we get in the news, I was impressed by the engineering involved in this one.

Title: Re: Glacial lake tapped
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 31, 2016, 10:03:22 AM

Impressive but also worrying as regards climate change.

Title: Re: Glacial lake tapped
Post by: Hope on October 31, 2016, 12:50:35 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 31, 2016, 10:03:22 AM

Impressive but also worrying as regards climate change.

In 1999, my family and I did the Annapurna Circuit, shortly before returning to the UK for good.  On our way, we passed the Gangapurna glacier.  The link here is to a series of pictures of the glacier from Manang in about 1850, 1950 and 2005.  Not a great deal of change from the first two, but the third is a huge change.  http://bit.ly/2fmAPJ8