Rising temperatures and intense human activity are destabilising the icy terrain, risking the lives of climbers and sherpas.

Over the past six decades, this lake has grown nearly sixfold, from 0.2 sq km in 1962 to 1.2 sq km in 2023.

To fill this gap, a semi-enclosed proglacial lake located in the southern Tibetan Plateau was chosen and a 28 cm sediment core, which can be dated back to 1836, was used to explore the temporal trends ...

The flood originated at South Lhonak Lake, a large proglacial lake located in a remote region of the Himalayas. On October 3 at 10:12 PM (local time), an entire section of the glacial moraine on the ...

In J&K itself, the authors identified 332 proglacial lakes, of which 65 have differing (nontrivial) glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) risks.

South Lhonak glacier is among one of the fastest retreating glaciers, and the associated proglacial lake has become the largest and fastest-growing in Sikkim. The glacier receded nearly 2 km in ...

“In Sikkim, the lake-terminating glaciers have shown accelerated growth compared to the glaciers with no lakes (Aggarwal et al., 2017). South Lhonak glacier is no different; it is one of the fastest ...

The South Lhonak glacier is one of the fastest retreating glaciers, and the associated proglacial lake has become the largest and fastest-growing in the state. The glacier receded two km in 46 ...

A GLOF occurred in parts of Lhonak Lake, leading to a rapid rise in water levels with very high velocities downstream along the Teesta River Basin in the early hours of October 4. This resulted in ...