Local People Using Water, Everest Expedition

A local man pours water from a well situated on the Rongbuk River bed into his friends washing. Until recent times the river was abundant with water but now it is dry for most of the year due to the deterioration of the glaciers on Everest. The Rongbuk Glaciers are one of the prime sources of water feeding into the major rivers of China and India. Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world as a result of global warming. Greenpeace are in Tibet to study and document the deterioration these glaciers and the environmental implications of glacier melt.