Nepal alone has 2323 lakes and 3252 peaks in the Himalayas. Bhutan has 2674 lakes but not as many peaks as in Nepal. In fact if you count all the lakes in Himalayas, it would be more than ten thousand. Here are why the variations in global warming affect the lakes in Himalayas. When the temperature increases, snow starts melting on the mountains resulting in snowslides. If you take the list of accidents here since 1935, there have been at least 12 such accidents. The lakes are not very deep yet has a huge width. The biggest glacier lake in Nepal, Tsho Rolpa had an area of 0.23 sq.km in 1950 but today it has increased six times more. Many lakes here have widened in the past too. Such lakes with increasing area can be seen in Kashmir-China border as well as Chinese border with Arunachal Pradesh too. In today’s world of satellites, the government of India has been able to collect pictures of many such lakes.
