Scaling Everest gets riskier due to climate change

Shuchita Jha

Risks for climbers who wish to scale Everest are growing as climate change is reshaping Everest, melting glaciers, creating unstable terrain, and threatening the iconic Khumbu Glacier. Overcrowding at Base Camp is worsening the crisis, accelerating glacier retreat and impacting the fragile Himalayan ecosystem. These glaciers are lifelines for millions of people in South Asia. Without urgent action to curb emissions and sustainable tourism, the risks will keep growing.

Shuchita Jha

Shuchita is a journalist with over 10 years of experience. Her work, in multimedia format, focuses on the interconnectedness of the environment, climate change, energy transition, and human rights. She is an accredited Solutions Journalism trainer.

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Shuchita Jha

Shuchita is a journalist with over 10 years of experience. Her work, in multimedia format, focuses on the interconnectedness of the environment, climate change, energy transition, and human rights. She is an accredited Solutions Journalism trainer.

Manon Verchot

Manon is a multimedia journalist and co-founder of InOldNews, the organization that runs Neighbird. She formerly headed video at Mongabay, Hindustan Times and Mint.

Sanshey Biswas

Starting his career as a print journalist in '14 at a weekly newspaper in India, he quickly gravitated to working on the digital side. He is a self-taught multimedia journalist who loves to learn from and with his colleagues spread across the globes.