The Himalayan glacier timeline spans four decades of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), rock-and-ice avalanches and compound rainfall disasters across Nepal…
An ice avalanche struck the moraine-dammed Dig Tsho lake in Nepal's Khumbu region. The end moraine dam collapsed and the lake drained downstream over roughly four hours,…
Following Dig Tsho, scientists and regional institutions began mapping dangerous Himalayan glacial lakes more systematically through the 1990s and 2000s. Glacier and gla…
Rainfall roughly three to four times heavier than normal, combined with rapid snowmelt, raised water levels in the moraine-dammed Chorabari Lake above Kedarnath. The lak…
About 27 million cubic metres of rock and glacier ice detached from the steep north face of Ronti Peak and became a highly mobile debris flow. Early reports called it a…
The moraine-dammed South Lhonak Lake released a catastrophic flood after an unstable lateral moraine mass collapsed into it, generating a roughly 20-metre wave that brea…
A rock avalanche struck a glacial lake at about 4,900 m, generating a displacement wave that breached the lake and fell onto a second lake below, breaching its moraine d…
Rapid growth and sudden drainage of a supraglacial lake on the Purepu Glacier in Tibet's Gyirong County sent a flood down the Lhende River and across the border into Nep…
A large section of glacier and rock detached on the Tibetan side of the border and fell roughly 1,200 metres, becoming an ice-rock avalanche that temporarily dammed the…
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