Every year, more than 450 climbers from around the world get permits from the Nepal government to climb Mt. Everest, and this number is constantly growing.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued a stark warning about the impacts of climate change, revealing that Nepal’s snow-capped mountains have lost nearly one-third of their ice over the past three decades.

Seventy years have passed since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay accomplished the remarkable feat of reaching the summit of Mount Everest

In the remainder of the century and if urgent measures are not taken to stop global warming, a minimum of 60% of the glaciers of the entire globe could disappear before 2100.

It is not new that glaciers around the world are losing mass, but until now little was known about what is happening to ice above 5,000 meters.