Photographs reveal Himalayan melt Posted: 6 October 2011 Author:
John Rowley After four years research and eight photographic
expeditions to the Himalayas, the mountaineer and photographer,
David Breashears, has mounted an exhibition at the Royal
Geographic Society in London, demonstrating the unprecedented
melt of many of the regions glaciers. Breasher, who has
successfully reached the summit of Everest five times and
directed the 1996 IMAX movie, has collected archival images of
mountains, lakes and glaciers from the last century and placed
them alongside his new ones, with spectacular effect. Retracing
the steps of such photographic pioneers as George Mallory, Major
E. O. Wheeler, Norman Dyhrenfurth and Vittorio Sella he has
recapture their photographs of these mountain glaciers from an
identical vantage point The exhibition, Rivers of Ice: Vanishing
Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya reveals that 'some of the
region's 35,000 glaciers are melting 'at an unprecedented rate'.
Breashears says: "These then-and-n