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Just as spring climbing on Mt Everest is drawing to a close, mountaineer and photojournalist Poornima Shrestha has sounded an alarming alarm on the state of the world’s highest peak. She stated that this season the glaciers are melting fast, revealing bodies that had been frozen within the ice for years.

Shrestha also mentioned that gigantic seracs were hanging from the Khumbu Icefall, thus postponing the climbing season by over two weeks. "It looked fragile," said Shrestha, who by 2025 successfully climbed Everest five times.

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"Crossing the Khumbu Icefall has always meant navigating collapsing seracs, shifting ladders, and deep crevasses, but now another danger is rapidly appearing across the glacier: newly formed meltwater streams flowing through the ice itself," she wrote on X.

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"This did not feel like the Everest I first knew. It felt like witnessing the meltdown of the world's highest mountain. During the 2026 Everest season, I walked beneath the Khumbu Icefall and felt something deeply unsettling. The mountain no longer looked frozen and permanent. It looked fragile. It looked wounded."

While descending to Base Camp 2, Shrestha shared a video and noted that scientists have repeatedly warned that the Himalayas are warming faster than the global average.

"What I witnessed on Everest no longer feels distant or theoretical. The warning signs are already here. The ice beneath climbers' feet is changing. Meltwater is flowing through places that were once permanently frozen. Ancient bodies trapped beneath glaciers are reappearing. Seracs are becoming more unstable," Shrestha said.

"Everest is speaking to humanity through this meltdown. The question is whether the world will finally listen before these warnings become irreversible."

Neitizens Responds

As the post went viral, several social media users echoed her concerns and warned about the consequences of ignoring nature’s signals.

"That’s nature, always fluid and changing," one user wrote. "If we don't listen to the voice of nature, then Nature will respond in a way that will be unforgiving to the human race," another commented.

“Once upon a time, the summit of Mt Everest could lay claim to being the single most pristine location on the planet. Now it's a garbage dumb with decomposing bodies & fields worth of human waste of every conceivable kind," a user said.

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Who Is Poornima Shrestha

Poornima Shrestha is a mountaineer and photojournalist; she was born in Arughat, Gorkha, Gandaki Province, Nepal. Shrestha began her climbing career in 2017 with Manaslu, which is the 8 th highest mountain in the World.

By 2025, she had climbed Mount Everest five times. Shrestha is the first Nepalese woman to scale Annapurna I and Dhaulagiri, among the world’s most challenging peaks.

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