Iced Sugar Mountain, when beauty is in the details
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Iced Sugar Mountain, when beauty is in the details

by Raul-David Serban, Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy

The ice-capped peaks of Annapurna Mountain (Himalaya, Nepal) stand up bravely against climate change and provide countless snowstorms and avalanches. Nevertheless, this is one of the most important water towers of the Asian Continent that provides water for hundreds of millions of people in the lowlands.