The loss of these glaciers between 2000-2020 previously went unnoticed due to a lack of observations of the churning happening underneath the surface of the water and glaciers in the region. This shows a glacier in the Everest region some 140 km (87 miles) northeast of Kathmandu. ( The glaciers have lost enough mass equal to around 570 million elephants put together. By accounting for the mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers, we can more accurately assess the specific annual mass balance of these glaciers compared to land-terminating ones, which further highlights the accelerated glacier mass loss across the greater Himalaya,” lead author Guoqing Zhang from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, said in a statement. Source: India Today