In the 2023 mountaineering season, more than 1,600 tents were set up in the base camp of Everest, located on the Khumbu glacier, which melts at great speed due to global warming. Mountaineers and their assistants – the Sherpas – used 824 cylinders of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), 18,935 litres of kerosene and 5,130 litres of gasoline to cook, heat stores and generate electricity. That human activity released a thermal energy that melted 2,500 t…
In the 2023 mountaineering season, more than 1,600 tents were set up in the base camp of Everest, located on the Khumbu glacier, which melts at great speed due to global warming. Mountaineers and their assistants – the Sherpas – used 824 cylinders of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), 18,935 litres of kerosene and 5,130 litres of gasoline to cook, heat stores and generate electricity. That human activity released a thermal energy that melted 2,500 t…