Mount Everest began to melt

BEIJING - Asia Society has released a picture showing the shrinking of the glaciers of Mount Everest dramatically since George Mallory photographed nearly 90 years ago.

Photographer and mountaineer David Breashears, who was part of Glacier Research projects Imaging Project (Grip), repeating the same steps undertaken by the British team in the 1921.

Breashears other than using their own photo shots, also compare with the work of photographer and mountain climber George Mallory L. They want to show the right circumstances Glester Mt.

The photos showed a surprise decline in the number of glacial ice since the first picture taken. The river is visible in the photograph shows, that the increasingly dry and stony.

"What the world choose to do about climate change will determine the fate of these glaciers," says Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society Center, as quoted by Science Daily, Tuesday (07/20/2010).

Himalayas is home to the largest ice reserves in the world except the poles, and they are very important meltwaters for hundreds of millions of people in the downstream.
(TYO)