The Himalayas In Danger?

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Apa Sherpa, who holds the record for climbing Mount Everest a total of 21 times, has noticed a change on the world’s largest peak. He has noticed that snow and ice are disappearing from the mountain making it difficult to climb.

He recently told the AFP news agency: “In 1989 when I first climbed Everest there was a lot of snow and ice but now most of it has just become bare rock. That, as a result, is causing more rockfalls which is a danger to the climbers.”

The climb up Everest, Apa noticed, has become more treacherous.

He told the Daily Mail that when he first began climbing the world’s tallest peak, the summit was covered with snow and ice

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