Sentences with phrase «small glacier lake»

A small glacier lake known as Nagma Pokhari sits nestled in a valley near Mount Everest in Nepal, surrounded by steep walls of sediment that hold the icy waters in place.

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Two mountains, one mountain range, one lake, a small glacier, an arch, a meteorological station and one golf club have been named after Dr. John Oliver La Gorce of Washington, D.C., who is shown here with his famed collection of weapons.

A small, frozen lake sits at the left - hand terminus of the glacier.

Desert, mountains, a small lake in which flamingos nibble, and of course glaciers, which we are saving for tomorrow.

As if the gorgeous stars weren't enough, you will be surrounded by the Salkantay Lake, the glaciers of the Salkantay and Humantay Mountains and the indescribable moraines (natural formations of small hills produced from the pressure of ice falling from the glaciers above).

In an area smaller than Switzerland, it has 983 glaciers and 2,794 glacial lakes, some of which have burst to produce deadly glacial lake floods.

Between the fast flowing marine terminating outlet glaciers, the ice sheet particularly in the southwest quadrant has numerous glaciers that terminate on land or in small lakes.

Times News Network: Melting of glaciers is resulting in the formation of smaller lakes in the high hills of Himachal Pradesh and is posing threat to the population living downstream.

In 2013, bursting of a small lake in front of Chorabari glacier coupled with heavy rainfall had wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand and in Himachal Pradesh 249 glacial lakes exists of which 11 have been identified as having [continue reading...]

A small, frozen lake sits at the left - hand terminus of the glacier.