THE VANISHING GLACIERS OF THE HIMALAYAS

The vanishing glaciers of the Himalayas were featured in an online article on the BBC website today. The "Rivers Of Ice"exhibition is taking place at the Royal Geographical Society in London until November 11th.

I have never been to the Himalayas but would very much like to visit.  Here is my own tribute to the diminishing glaciers of planet Earth.  This is a photograph I took of Svínafellsjökull in Iceland back in 2010. 

Svínafellsjökull - 2010  Pauline Woolley

Unfortunately you don't really get the sense of scale from the photo. These are large peaks with deep crevasses and when walking on the glacier you are quite high up.  To get onto the ice, I had to climb down a rope ladder from the rocks. Our guide told us that at the beginning of the summer, walkers were able to just step onto the glacier off the rocks.  This was a big indication of how much the ice had receded in only a few months.