glacier

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In 1985, Nepal’s Dig Tsho lake, in the Everest region, burst after part of a hanging glacier fell into it, destroying houses and infrastructure below.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

In 1962, the program spotted a small wedge of lake forming on the eastern side of the Lhonak glacier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Gerhard Lieb, who runs the glacier monitoring service with Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, said the weather conditions in recent years had been "extremely unfavourable for glaciers".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

The isotope data also point to processes occurring beneath the glacier itself.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

The glacier had been over these mountainsides, in the hundreds of thousands of years it had been grinding back and forth across the North.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin